“Thank you for the charity”, “this is indecent”, “measurement”… On Thursday, the left sharply criticized the “gesture” of TotalEnergies, whose CEO Patrick Pouyanne announced the day before a cap on fuel prices of 1.99 euros per liter in its stations (except diesel Excellium fuel and unleaded 98).
“Thank you for the charity,” La France insoumise MEP Manon Aubry responded to franceinfo, recalling that in times of high inflation, “gestures of mercy, we take everything! But, she explained, “when what is produced in France, that is, what is called added value, is distributed more to shareholders than to employees, we also deplete social protection funding.” “In the 1980s, the average worker worked a week to fund shareholder dividends,” she noted. “Today, that’s 45 days a year.”
“It’s indecent,” LFI deputy Thomas Portes said on Sud Radio, recalling that “the price at the gas station is rather around 1.70-1.80 euros” at present, complaining that “Emmanuel Macron” content with asking for gestures. from companies.
“The price of a liter of diesel fuel is almost always less than 2 euros”
In support of the table, LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard denounced on Twitter “the dishonesty of this announcement: in the last 13 months, the price of a liter of diesel fuel has almost always been below 2 euros.”
“We are on a measuring spoon, not enough at all,” also regretted the number 2 of the Socialist Party, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol on Europe 1, believing that in TotalEnergies there was “ultra appropriation of superprofits by a few, some to the detriment of many others.
— Do they have any bread? Let them eat the pie! PS spokesman Pierre Jouvet quipped for his part, picking up on the response attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette as the hungry crowd marched on Versailles.
The TotalEnergies measure was announced after the head of state put pressure on the oil group on Tuesday, calling for a new “gesture” on fuel prices. On Thursday, government spokesman Olivier Veran ruled that “if we look at the prices that could have been achieved in previous months”, “the impact of the discount will be greater”, “of the order of 40 pennies”. On the sidelines of a trip to Hermond (Val-d’Oise), he defended the “Total gesture” which “does not necessarily exist in the countries around us” and which offers “visibility” to consumers as it runs after everything. 2023.
Source: Le Parisien
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