2023-09-16 18:57:17
Published on Sep 16, 2023 at 8:41 p.m.Updated September 16, 2023 at 8:57 p.m.
The State is deploying a new tool to help motorists, without spending public funds. Distributors are in fact authorized to sell gasoline “at a loss” for a few months, announced the Prime Minister in an interview with Le Parisien.
The aim is to “lower prices further”, underlines Elisabeth Borne. With this “unprecedented measure, we will have tangible results for the French, without subsidizing fuel”, specifies the head of government. She recalled that selling at a loss had been prohibited by law since 1963.
On the other hand, Elisabeth Borne did not accept the opposition’s proposals which call for either a rebate like a year ago, or a reduction in gasoline taxation to deal with the surge in fuel prices which have reached the mark of two euros per liter.
“Everyone takes their part”
“Everyone takes their part,” she affirmed, explaining that “it is normal to involve large industrialists”, while recalling that “the responsibility of the State is also to lower its deficit and debt.
Asked about the comments of the national secretary of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, who this week called on the French “to invade service stations and supermarkets”, Ms. Borne said she was “surprised” by declarations which were not “in his habits”.
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