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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Heck they can't even tax gas to fight global warming in france.
Plus they are doing it all wrong. A bottom up tax will have no measurable effect on saving the world.
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But they do?
Gas used to be much cheaper in France than over here where tax makes up more than half of the rice of gasoline. Nowadays its is almost the same, and diesel is even more expensive than here:
https://autotraveler.ru/en/spravka/f...in-europe.html
Another price raise on top of that was too much for some to keep supporting the democratically chosen president.
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