Practice – Stop expensive gasoline … and long live the motorcycle! –

Stop expensive gasoline … and long live the motorcycle !

Practical - Stop expensive gasoline ... and long live the motorcycle! -

Without really knowing how to go about it, the new government intends to halt the rise in fuel prices before this start of the school year … Site offers for its part a terribly effective way to lower the bill at the pump: less pumping, by replacing the auto by motorcycle of course !

Without really knowing how to go about it, the new government intends to halt the rise in fuel prices before the start of the school year … Site offers a terribly effective way to lower the bill at the pump: less pumping, by replacing the auto by motorcycle of course !

"There is no question that fuel prices will continue to increase," Pierre Moscovici said yesterday on the airwaves of Europe 1. "I hereby make the reiterated commitment that fuel prices will be at (back to school) at a level which cannot be higher than that of today or even that of a few weeks ago ", even insisted the Minister of Economy and Finance.

Unfortunately, "the measures are not easy to take, blocking it is not easy, there are precise regulatory conditions and then there are fiscal or financial measures that can be taken, but they are costly", continues the minister.

According to the former deputy for Doubs, "Bercy will act after the submission of an administration report on August 24 and a meeting with refiners and distributors (depots, fuel transport, service stations, etc.) the 28 "… File to follow.

P. Moscovici: no panacea to reduce the bill at the pump

In the meantime, public pressure will increase as the month of September approaches: stunned by the prices charged on the roads back from vacation, the French will want their new President to keep his promises as soon as possible … believe in ?

According to a poll published Tuesday in L’Humanite, nine out of ten French people are in favor of a temporary blocking of the price of gasoline and diesel, followed by floating taxation. "While remaining skeptical," AFP notes, "since six in ten believe that the government will not implement the promises in question" !

In addition to the famous blockage, the "return of the" floating "tax on petroleum products (already applied between 2000 and 2002) must go through the law and therefore cannot be decided as a matter of urgency", noted Pierre Moscovici, referring also to "the possibility of reduced prices for the most modest and that, more vague, of acting in a concerted manner with the distributors", reports AFP.

SP95: € 1.60 per liter

According to the latest statements from the Ministry of Ecology published on Monday, diesel (80% of consumption in France still according to AFP!), Returned last week to around 3 cents from its record in mid-March (1.4584 euro). The unleaded 95 is a little more than 6 cents under his (1.6664 euros on April 13).

But "oil having continued to rise in recent days, an increase already appears likely this week in service stations," warns Agence France Presse.

"We must not play the Cassandra, but it is true that with the trend we have (…), we will be very, very close to records at the pump, especially for diesel", elsewhere recognized Monday Jean-Louis Schilansky, the president of the French Union of petroleum industries (Ufip).

AFP finally recalls that "the previous government refused to freeze prices, on the grounds of 5 billion tax loss for ten cents less taxes". This is to say if the start of the school year promises to be complicated for the new government.

MNC: consume less to pay less

Site, for its part, delivers as a conclusion a little tip to poor consumers … Until the price of gasoline drops – or stops rising? – it is always possible to reduce your fuel budget: the exercise consists in consuming less !

Faced with cars, scooters and motorcycles have a great card to play. For some models, this is precisely a master advantage … Thus, without sparing it too much, Honda’s recent NC700S only burns 3.6 liters per 100 km, and can even drop below the bar of 3 l / 100km (read our Comparo :). The watchword: ride two wheels, in a cool way !

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