From the GWPF
Date: 16/11/18
GWPF & Irish Times
France is bracing for a nationwide revolt over the weekend as angry drivers plan to block roads nationwide in protest against the government’s carbon tax and rising fuel prices.
The French government approved a measure in late 2017 increasing a direct tax on diesel as well as a tax on carbon, allegedly to fight against climate change. The so-called Contribution Climat Énergie (CCE), a French version of the carbon tax, has steadily increased fuel prices in recent years. Drivers across the country have balked at the rising price of diesel as it disproportionately affects workers who depend on their vehicles to get to and from their jobs. Two-thirds of French people expect a “social explosion” in coming months.
Rise of the ‘gilets jaunes’ coincides with Macron’s record low 26% approval rating.
Anti-riot policemen evacuate gilets jaunes protesters during a protest against the raising of fuel and oil prices. Photograph: Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images
In just a few weeks, the yellow hi-vis vest has become such a potent political symbol that one risks being mistaken for a supporter of the rebellious gilets jaunes when cycling in Paris.
The gilets jaunes are a grass-roots revolt against high fuel prices, and they threaten to paralyse France on Saturday.
The cause of the price hikes are “eco taxes” meant to dissuade the French from using cars. “We choose to tax pollution and harmful products rather than workers,” budget minister Gérald Darmanin explains. Yet the fuel taxes penalise the poor disproportionately.
In the hope of deflating the protests, prime minister Édouard Philippe on Wednesday announced €500 million of compensatory measures, including a €5,000 bonus for low-income earners who trade in polluting cars for a hybrid model.
The gilets jaunes have organised at least 630 protests nationwide via the blocage17novembre.com website, designed by an 18-year-old student. Some call for go-slows on highways. Others want to block roads, which is punishable by two years in prison and a €4,500 fine. Interior minister Christophe Castaner says no “total blockage” will be tolerated.
But several police unions have expressed sympathy, and promised not to punish petty or “middle-size” offences “out of solidarity with the citizens”.
Unlikely heroine
The movement has found an unlikely symbol in Jacline Mouraud, a 51-year-old accordion player, hypnotist and spiritual medium from Brittany who on October 18th posted a video message hectoring President Emmanuel Macron for “persecuting drivers”.
Mouraud’s video went viral, and has been viewed by more than six million people. “I have a thing or two to tell you,” she starts out. The stream of accusations includes the price of fuel, the “hunt” for diesel vehicles, the “forest” of radars, the number of traffic tickets, the possibility tolls may be charged to enter large towns and rumours of mandatory bicycle registration.
“What are you doing with the dough, apart from changing the china at the Élysée and building a swimming pool?” Mouraud asks Macron.
A senior adviser to Macron spoke scathingly of “this Madame Mouraud who generates spirits from under her fingernails”. He expressed consternation that a video “stuffed with lies” has reached such a wide audience, saying: “I have the feeling that our democracy is also at stake.”
Yet the Élysée “is absolutely not condescending towards this movement”, the adviser continued. “We don’t underestimate its amplitude. Our vigilance is total, even if the signals are blurred.”
The rise of the gilets jaunes coincides with Macron’s record low 26 per cent approval rating. A poll published by Ifop on November 14th indicates two-thirds of French people expect a “social explosion” in coming months.
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HT/HotScot, Alan Tomalty
Its a strange contradictory world.
Trump is an individual enigma. Unfortunately his populist views are not shared by many in his own party. The general demographics in the US are against him. If the Dems find a charismatic challenger in 2020, they will win. The ‘French revolution’ philosophy is overwhelming the ‘American revolution’ philosophy in its own back yard.
Yet the French themselves continue to demonstrate that whilst they continue to cling lovingly to their social contract, they will not be pushed round by their Parisian elite who wish to join in the global ‘virtue signalling’ to climate change.
An ex-pat Brit living in both countries.
JimW
The Dems have played the black card with Obama. They tried to play the gender card with Hilary. As far as I can see as a distant Brit in the UK, there are no US politicians currently with Presidential credentials who could out charisma Trump.
And as polarising and as unpopular as Thatcher was, she had a loyal following of Conservatives because she did what she promised, much like Trump is doing, only he’s being a bit more explicit and a bit less political about delivering his manifesto.
If the Republicans would just run an ad that said,”If you like your job, you can keep your job. Vote Republican,” they would win easily. The ability to put food on the table is always the number one concern of voters. If they would keep pounding away on how good the economy is, and downplay all other issues, there would be no contest.
JimW, problem with you Brits is you don’t even know such thing as ‘Europe’.
When traveling to France you tell your peoples you’re going ‘to the continent’.
Hi there
As a reader of WUWT and living in France I can tell you that this revolt has nothing much to do with the Carbon Tax per se. This is really about Taxes in general and the rising price of fuel which is already highly taxed (60% of the price is due to various taxes) . Of course, the future hike due to the Carbon tax is adding to the overall rage but French people are not against Climate Change “mitigation” measures in general.
It looks like a tipping point has been reached for the middle class and they are not going to take it anymore.
Macron election was a hold-up, and the hold-up continues with all these rising taxes, there’s no end in sight…
Maybe the coming freezing temperatures will stop the street protests. I ‘m sure the government is counting on it ! ( which is adding to the irony !)
As for Climate Change in France no dissent of skeptical view is tolerated. You’re painted as nazi or a holocaust denier if you start to challenge the belief.
My favorite game is to count the number of “positive” references to “climate change” as the culprit of everything when watching the news or TV documentaries. Amusing and enraging at the same time 🙁
stephane
As I mentioned somewhere above, whilst taxing people indirectly under the guise of carbon credits and renewable energy can’t be argued against because of course the science is settled, Macron had clumsily gone the direct route and taxed fuel. That’s easy to protest against because their is no emotional shield to hide behind.
The French are indignant, quite rightly, about ridiculous tax hikes for something they don’t understand because what has fuel taxes got to do with climate change. It directly impacts their lives and income of which there can be no argument. That science is most certainly settled.
Macron has painted himself into a corner over this one and exposed his political naivety.
How good is Marine LePen looking right about now?
No so bad but I think anybody in this context can look better than Macron ! Every opposition parties are trying to piggyback on this movement but the Yellow vests want to stay away from politics and continue the grass root revolt. They want to have a meeting with the President and force him to revert his stance about taxes.
Difficult times ahead for Macron. He’s an outsider with no big party backing and his early supports are distancing away. He’s no more the press darling as it was during the Presidential election.
Interesting times for France…
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DU 23 NOVEMBRE 2018
MACRONIE RIME AVEC MÉPRIS !
Cette semaine a illustré une fois encore cette faculté du Système d’Emmanuel Macron à mépriser tout ce qui ne lui ressemble pas.
Mépris d’abord pour les Français, pour ce peuple central qui se lève tôt pour travailler et paie des impôts, et qui lorsqu’il ose manifester contre la hausse des taxes se fait insulter de « beaufs », quand ce n’est pas même parfois de « fascistes ».
Mépris encore quand, malgré des années de lutte, le droit des femmes se voit bafouer par le Système et ses juges. En effet, ces derniers ont acquitté un réfugié du Bangladesh ayant violé une jeune lycéenne française, estimant que celui-ci ne disposait pas de nos « codes culturels » !
Face au mépris du Système, la colère des Français est totalement légitime. Et tant que le gouvernement restera sourd aux préoccupations quotidiennes des Français, il portera la lourde responsabilité de la radicalisation des contestations. Lors des prochaines échéances électorales, nous ferons entendre cette colère salvatrice : nous serons la voix du Peuple fier de ce qu’il est, fier d’être Français !
Je fais entendre ma voix, j’adhère au RN ››
> GILETS JAUNES : Le RN mobilisé !
Samedi 24 novembre, partout en France, les élus et les cadres du Rassemblement National répondront présents à l’appel des gilets jaunes pour défendre le pouvoir d’achat des Français. Pour ne plus subir, la mobilisation continue !
Témoignages des cadres du RN sur Twitter :
› INVITATION/COLLOQUE :
“De la délinquance à l’ensauvagement ?”
› FISCALITÉ – « Baisser les taxes et les impôts pour les Français, ma priorité » Marine Le Pen
Vidéo: “J’ai proposé pendant l’élection présidentielle de baisser les trois premières tranches de l’impôt sur le revenu de 10%. L’argent doit revenir aux Français !”
Marine Le Pen,
invitée de LCI-Le Figaro-RTL
(18/11/2018)
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MACRONIE RIME AVEC MÉPRIS !
Cette semaine a illustré une fois encore cette faculté du Système d’Emmanuel Macron à mépriser tout ce qui ne lui ressemble pas.
Mépris d’abord pour les Français, pour ce peuple central qui se lève tôt pour travailler et paie des impôts, et qui lorsqu’il ose manifester contre la hausse des taxes se fait insulter de « beaufs », quand ce n’est pas même parfois de « fascistes ».
Mépris encore quand, malgré des années de lutte, le droit des femmes se voit bafouer par le Système et ses juges. En effet, ces derniers ont acquitté un réfugié du Bangladesh ayant violé une jeune lycéenne française, estimant que celui-ci ne disposait pas de nos « codes culturels » !
Face au mépris du Système, la colère des Français est totalement légitime. Et tant que le gouvernement restera sourd aux préoccupations quotidiennes des Français, il portera la lourde responsabilité de la radicalisation des contestations. Lors des prochaines échéances électorales, nous ferons entendre cette colère salvatrice : nous serons la voix du Peuple fier de ce qu’il est, fier d’être Français !
Je fais entendre ma voix, j’adhère au RN ››
> GILETS JAUNES : Le RN mobilisé !
Samedi 24 novembre, partout en France, les élus et les cadres du Rassemblement National répondront présents à l’appel des gilets jaunes pour défendre le pouvoir d’achat des Français. Pour ne plus subir, la mobilisation continue !
Témoignages des cadres du RN sur Twitter :
› INVITATION/COLLOQUE :
“De la délinquance à l’ensauvagement ?”
› FISCALITÉ – « Baisser les taxes et les impôts pour les Français, ma priorité » Marine Le Pen
Vidéo: “J’ai proposé pendant l’élection présidentielle de baisser les trois premières tranches de l’impôt sur le revenu de 10%. L’argent doit revenir aux Français !”
Marine Le Pen,
invitée de LCI-Le Figaro-RTL
(18/11/2018)
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MACRONIE RIME AVEC MÉPRIS !
Cette semaine a illustré une fois encore cette faculté du Système d’Emmanuel Macron à mépriser tout ce qui ne lui ressemble pas.
Mépris d’abord pour les Français, pour ce peuple central qui se lève tôt pour travailler et paie des impôts, et qui lorsqu’il ose manifester contre la hausse des taxes se fait insulter de « beaufs », quand ce n’est pas même parfois de « fascistes ».
Mépris encore quand, malgré des années de lutte, le droit des femmes se voit bafouer par le Système et ses juges. En effet, ces derniers ont acquitté un réfugié du Bangladesh ayant violé une jeune lycéenne française, estimant que celui-ci ne disposait pas de nos « codes culturels » !
Face au mépris du Système, la colère des Français est totalement légitime. Et tant que le gouvernement restera sourd aux préoccupations quotidiennes des Français, il portera la lourde responsabilité de la radicalisation des contestations. Lors des prochaines échéances électorales, nous ferons entendre cette colère salvatrice : nous serons la voix du Peuple fier de ce qu’il est, fier d’être Français !
Je fais entendre ma voix, j’adhère au RN ››
> GILETS JAUNES : Le RN mobilisé !
Samedi 24 novembre, partout en France, les élus et les cadres du Rassemblement National répondront présents à l’appel des gilets jaunes pour défendre le pouvoir d’achat des Français. Pour ne plus subir, la mobilisation continue !
Témoignages des cadres du RN sur Twitter :
› INVITATION/COLLOQUE :
“De la délinquance à l’ensauvagement ?”
› FISCALITÉ – « Baisser les taxes et les impôts pour les Français, ma priorité » Marine Le Pen
Vidéo: “J’ai proposé pendant l’élection présidentielle de baisser les trois premières tranches de l’impôt sur le revenu de 10%. L’argent doit revenir aux Français !”
Marine Le Pen,
invitée de LCI-Le Figaro-RTL
(18/11/2018)
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Das Problem ‘auf dem Kontinent’ ist:
Hier wurde das Wort ‘Nation’ zur herabwürdigenden Bezeichnung.
Wer als ‘Nationalist’ etikettiert wurde hat sich damit ausser aller Konventionen begeben und wird weniger beachtet als ein Papierkübel.
In Ewigkeit. Amen.
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The problem ‘on the continent’ is:
Here the word ‘nation’ became a derogatory term.
Anyone who has been labeled as a ‘nationalist’ is thus set outside all conventions and gets payd less attention than a paper bucket.
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It’s only a matter of time when the rest of the world will not import goods and services from countries impose high taxes on their goods and services. The end consumers pay all taxes on goods and services. And, yes, Progressives Socialist or Fascism will run out of other people’s money.
Not to mention the increased cost of getting the over priced goods to market using carbon taxes on the flights and upgrade costs on the ships.
France is just next door. TV + Media are entirely devoted to one thing: -Mine the green vein.
A perpetual background noise reminder that there’s still money left to fetch from the population.
That other day te crew hauler showed with an otherwise expensive full options German luxury hybrid. He stated the close to 160’000 € initial price tag pays for itself in less than a year. Tax deductions, incentives, public image when contracting fares.
That’s at least 430€ plus the driver’s salary each day. Who pays ?
Everyone. That’s how democracy works. Corporates contract green haulers, price does not matter. Then distribute the costs to their customers. Democratically.
What a shame…
Flight Level
If I get you right, it’s not the driver/owners fault that the system can be leveraged by business to it’s advantage. That’s businesses job, to ensure every means possible is exploited to express a profit. It’s a governments fault for having ridiculously convoluted tax laws even they can’t interpret, riddled with loopholes professional, profitable, accountants can exploit to their clients benefit.
Governments are clumsy instruments of financial management. They ought to stick to their original brief of using income tax to protecting their borders. The first general income tax, 1p in £1 was introduced by the British Government to pay for the Napoleonic wars. It has since been distorted to fight every battle a minority group can convince governments to fight on its behalf.
That sounds pretty much as an apology to organized crime. No business based on depleting people’s budgets by ever increasing prices can remain operational for longer than imposed by law.
Happens that prince Macron knows that he has very limited time to cash in on corporate gratitude.
While Mr. Trump has what it takes to consider his presidency as a non-profit operation.
Which is why all Macronites around the world hate the way he spoils their profits.
Yes Macronites. The very same ones who’ll push forwards nonsensical green agendas while chartering liners for 35 minutes chock to chock legs. And leave the VIP area in chauffeur driven hybrids.
“That other day te crew hauler showed with an otherwise expensive full options German luxury hybrid. He stated the close to 160’000 € initial price tag pays for itself in less than a year. ”
Austrian states Kabel TV – you have to pay regardless of owning a TV set –
jubileed about rocketing electro mobility: Porsche anounced a luxury electro SUV ready made for sale.
maybe states Kable TV moderators earn enough to by Porsche elektro SUVs.
Well OF COURSE they’re persecuting drivers. That’s the whole point. These policies put in place with majority support from voters.
I wonder how many of these protesters were themselves critical of Trump for not being swept along by the insanity.
They want the problem solved. It’s just that they want someone else to pay the price.
They never imagined that they would have to shoulder part of the burden.
End pork shortages NOW! Hey, hands off my piglets!
Just double the tax now for double the “out of the abundance of caution” positioning. They won’t mind in France or California and NY.
Go gilets jaunes!
It will greatly help if you claim righteousness by pointing out that life increases in warmer temperatures. When do you mow your grass? Wasn’t Mann’s research about tree ring GROWTH?
What is a “climate optimum?”
This guys sounds like an American Democrat.
“We choose to tax pollution and harmful products rather than workers,” budget minister Gérald Darmanin explains. Yet the fuel taxes penalise the poor disproportionately.
“Let them eat cake”
In other news….MN recently elected a governor who ran on increasing the gas tax 🙁
How can people be so dumb?
“”A senior adviser to Macron spoke . . . . “I have the feeling that our democracy is also at stake.”’
Just wait until the temperature heads further south. There will be torches and pitch forks in the streets.
I understood the ‘Eat cake’ thing came out of the idea of the ‘Bakers Dozen’ – wherein (bread) bakers were always regarded as crooks and overcharged their customers.
Typically English bakers would give you 13 loaves for the price of 12 – hence Baker’s Dozen
But French bakers got round it by overfilling their baking tins before putting them in the oven.
Of course the bread expanded as it cooked and would touch the hot walls of the oven and become blackened & burnt.
This would then be cut off at the point of sale, to demonstrate to the customer that the baker was not a cheating lying crook.
The cut off bits were referred to as ‘cake’ and typically fed to pigs.
Hence Marie Antionette was saying to the serfs:
“If you’re hungry, why not eat pig food”
Interesting though, part of the reason she did lose her head was via the addition of chalk to flour.
To make it ‘go further’
But in these Modern Times, we find that chalk is added to flour for its ‘Health Benefits’
Amazing eh?
Didn’t do Marie’s health a bundle of good that’s fo’sure
Also we find Vitamins C and B are routinely added to modern flour.
Why is that deemed to be necessary? What have vegetarians to say about that?
Meantime in the UK, why is the price of petrol falling and diesel not?
I smell a racket…..
Same here in Oz. For years diesel had been cheaper than petrol, now it’s much more expensive (or, as you say, it’s not going down).
I suspect it’s because of the enforcement of the use of diesel for shipping to replace fuel oil.
Diesel was cheaper then petrol back when only truckers used it.
Once passenger cars started to be converted to burn diesel the price went up.
I don’t agree with this at all. The EPA caused the extra usage with the reduction of MPG caused by the new law.
EPA demands _lower_ Sulphur content, which increases the processing cost.
Markw
That may be US centric view?
Not here in Australia, nor in Europe nor the UK. It has fluctuated a lot, and still does year by year, sometimes month by month.
I don’t know why. I used to think it was taxation, but the rapid fluctuations in Australia prove that wrong. Nobody I’ve asked in the retail end have the slightest clue.
Zig Zag, MarkW is clueless
In SE Oklahoma, at the EZMart station where I usually fill up, diesel tends to stay a little more expensive than ethanol-free gasoline/petrol. On a few occasions it’s been slightly cheaper. They’ve got two ethanol-free pumps there that I avail myself of.
Ascorbic acid, vitamin C, is used by commercial bread makers because in measured proportions it favors faster rising & not only makes a thinner crust possible but changes structural parameters so when customers compress the loaf getting it home it will rebound. There are other desirable dynamics as well.
Viramin B6, B12 & B9 (folic acid) were introduced into bread flour for risk reduction of neural tube defects in many countries where bread was a significant dietary item.
Home & some artesanal bakers can always find a way to omit these, even if must grind their own flour. So, no they are not indispensably necessay.
More likely, she never said it.
It was the city gate tax around Paris that was the flash point among other factors for the French Revolution. That took underestimation on the part of elites for the response and overestimation of the power of the State to get away with it.
And so the Carbon Scam Wars began as a backlash by the people one road block at a time.
This may not end well for everyone, including those watching from the sidelines. The auto industry of the EU betting on electric, consumers pushed around by virtue advocacy signaling, political parties in flux, Brexit, and sovereign debt. You can pick your poison but it’s more likely a combination of all of them together…plus cold winters starting up from the AMO cycle working against all of them.
Je suis Carbon
Moi aussi! Et toute la monde!
I guess the climate propaganda campaign was not as effective in softening up the enemy (citizen car owners) as the advertising consultants claimed.
Thank God Trump is in here……
Amen to that brother!
I just wish the truckers would shutdown for one week here, Maybe the Coast might figure out just how little they produce and who they are truly dependent on. Hopefully that will kill AGW nonsense for now and that the thinking that somehow flyover country don’t count. It is really stupid for those who produce no energy, fiber, raw materials or food somehow think 90% of the US population that does, are idiots and useless.
– to block roads, [which] is punishable by two years in prison and a €4,500 fine. Interior minister Christophe Castaner says no “total blockage” will be tolerated.
– The French government approved a measure in late 2017 increasing a direct tax on diesel as well as a tax on carbon. … The cause of the price hikes are “eco taxes” meant to dissuade the French from using cars.
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So Macron won’t leave it by
blocking roads, which is punishable by two years in prison and a €4,500 fine.
his “eco taxes” [are] meant to dissuade ALL French from using cars.
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That’s more then “blocking roads”:
What about condemning Macron with
( two years in prison + €4,500 fine ) * ( blocked workers )
Das ist wirklich ein spannender Thread.
Der spannendste WUWT thread ever.
Thanks all contributers!