Sure Pete, this isn't a real protest.Has nothing to do with the protests. It is just a convenient trigger or excuse. If it was a real protest then the hauling industry unions would be out in force blocking streets and so on.. they are not.
Sure Pete, this isn't a real protest.
What other lie would you like folks to believe?
Has nothing to do with the protests. It is just a convenient trigger or excuse. If it was a real protest then the hauling industry unions would be out in force blocking streets and so on.. they are not.
Where did I say it was not a protest? I said that the tax had very little to do with the protest and was at best a trigger...
Really, PeterEU? So are the French yellow jacket protesters just being fashionable and lying about what they are protesting about?
Really, PeterEU? So are the French yellow jacket protesters just being fashionable and lying about what they are protesting about?
Has nothing to do with the protests. It is just a convenient trigger or excuse. If it was a real protest then the hauling industry unions would be out in force blocking streets and so on.. they are not.
If the fuel price taxes have nothing to do with the riots, then why is Macron now suspending the fuel price hike?
Fashionable... dunno ask the world class designers in Paris.. as for lying about what they are protesting about.. yep. Why I say that? Because I would wager that most of those protesters dont even have cars and are not effected by the tax. Now if it had been truckers doing the protesting then it would be another matter, but to me the protesters look more like anarchist groups than anything else.
Gas prices in France are not out of the ordinary when compared to the rest of Europe.. so there is more behind this.
Of course that does not stop the far right American types jumping on the bandwagon and promoting their crazy anti-climate change bs and all that. Just as Steve Banon and his cohorts wants to happen in Europe.
To be honest.... he is playing them. If they dont back down, then we know that the protests and violence had nothing to do with the tax hike.
That or he is a whimp and yet again a French president/government bends to the mob.
Greetings, Jack. :2wave:
IIRC, I read a few days ago that this is equal to $9.00/gallon for fuel in US dollars, and they want to add another tax?... :thumbdown
Greetings, Polgara.:2wave:
They're backing down.
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[h=1]French Government Backs Down on “Climate Change” Fuel Taxes[/h][FONT="]Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon – President Macron’s government has retreated from imposing climate change fuel taxes, caved in to pressure from the yellow jacket movement. But the protestors are already suggesting that the government backdown might not be enough. French PM announces suspension of fuel tax hikes after ‘Yellow Vest’…
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A 6 month delay is not backing down, it is a strategic delay, macron has not changed a thing about the direction he is headed:
https://www.dw.com/en/france-suspends-fuel-tax-hike-for-6-months-to-quell-protests/a-46570630
https://www.dw.com/en/frances-emmanuel-macron-finds-respite-amid-mass-protests/a-46579998
They know now they can push him around. They will do it again.
It sure looks like there are a lot of unhappy people in France over the new taxes from the climate policy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46411699
€1.51 per liter, is roughly $6.45 per gallon.
That is an increase of about $1.25 per gallon in the last 12 months, I can see why they are unhappy.
It sure looks like there are a lot of unhappy people in France over the new taxes from the climate policy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46411699
€1.51 per liter, is roughly $6.45 per gallon.
That is an increase of about $1.25 per gallon in the last 12 months, I can see why they are unhappy.
Where did I say it was not a protest? I said that the tax had very little to do with the protest and was at best a trigger...
[h=1]Technocrate, Moi?[/h]Posted on 04 Dec 18 by GEOFF CHAMBERS • 9 Comments
My reasons for bringing up the current political unrest in France on this blog in articles here and here are simple: the tectonic plates of public opinion on climate change move slowly but inexorably. Identifying where the big quake will happen is of key importance. It might be in Australia or California or Germany. Suddenly, … Continue re
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