The right proposes a "check fuel" for the French who do not have access to public transport

LR MPs Guillaume Peltier and Damien Abad have proposed Sunday a "check fuel" of 100 euros distributed to "13 million French province" who have "no access to public transport", a measure to compensate for "excessive rise in taxes "on diesel.

"This fuel check of 100 euros is addressed, not to all the French, but to 13 million French people who live in the provinces of France and who do not have the chance to have a network of public transport" , said Guillaume Peltier in the political program Le Grand Rendez-Vous of Europe 1, CNews and The echoes.

Double punishment

The deputy from Loir-et-Cher said he would be, at the demonstration of November 17 against the rise in the price of diesel decided by the government, "alongside the French who, in their overwhelming majority, are angry with see a deaf government ". But he has however spoken against a blockage of roads, considered "counterproductive".

"That there is a taxation on fuels, it seems fair to me and besides all the French pay for it.But why us, the inhabitants of France of the provinces, 13 million French, we would have the double penalty ? ", asked the number 3 Republicans.

He compared a person to the "RSA who receives 800 euros of income" and "a worker to SMIC, who receives 1488 euros" and who "does a few tens of kilometers every day and pays 490 euros more". "Given this excessive rise in taxes, labor income is becoming lower than the income of the badistance," he denounced.

"An exceptional tax on motorway companies"

Guillaume Peltier pleaded for a "punitive ecology against multinationals", notably via "an exceptional tax on motorway companies" which "accumulated 10 billion euros of turnover last year".

MP Ain Damien Abad told RTL that the fuel check would be financed by this tax, "but also on the model of the ticket restaurant: an employer and a share employee".

The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, former LR, is opposed to the creation of such a check fuel, qualifying the proposal of "solution in the short term which would contribute to the global warming", in an interview with the Parisian October 27th.