NEWS: FUEL PRICES INCREASE: Robert Ménard releases the big game! : Herault Tribune

While citizen demonstrations are organized across the national territory on Saturday, November 17, Some elected also calls for mobilization. This is the case of Robert Ménard who calls the Biterrois to protest against the rise in fuel taxes, particularly on diesel fuel:

" The victims of this tax hype are, once again, those of peripheral France, those who are never heard. This is particularly unfair: a few years ago, the state paid a premium to households buying a diesel car. These same French people today have to pay without having the means to change cars. They are the ones who live far from big cities, those who have to take their car every day to go to work. The Prime Minister says that we are taxing fuel, but in reality we are taxing work and those who work. It is an insolent contempt. It is a rare injustice. "

The Town Hall of Béziers is obviously also affected by these tax increases. In 2019, municipal vehicles and diesel vehicles will consume nearly 476,000 liters of diesel fuel, which will cost around € 714,000, or nearly € 175,000 increase (+ 32%) in one year.

A demonstration of municipal vehicles

According to Robert Ménard, " the ecology has good back … This increase benefits mainly to the finances of the State and little to the environment. Studies show that an electric vehicle, from manufacture to scrapping, generates about as much carbon as a diesel vehicle. "

The mayor of Béziers is organizing the gathering of some fifty municipal diesel vehicles, at the top of Paul Riquet alleys, on Saturday, November 17 at 11am.