The ecologist Sandrine Rousseau ruled Sunday, October 24 on franceinfo “derisory” the inflation allowance of 100 euros which will be paid to 38 million French people to compensate for the sharp rise in fuel and energy in Europe. “This is ridiculous compared to the increases in energy, compared to the increases in gas, electricity and gasoline”, said the one who is now special adviser on issues of precariousness and discrimination to Yannick Jadot, the environmental candidate for the 2022 presidential election.
“It’s a patch, we are going to write this check for 100 euros and in three months or six months we will be in exactly the same situation because it was not accompanied by structural measures”, she added. According to her, “we must give oxygen, space and income to the most precarious” over the long term. “There, it is an urgent measure whereas we had already had alerts in 2018 with the ‘yellow vests’ (…) and that this is not an exceptional situation”, she criticized. “It’s a situation that will happen again, not to say it is to lie about the situation of the French”, continued Sandrine Rousseau, calling for “structural measures”, to resolve “a structural problem”.
“We must ensure that the French depend less on these energies.”
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Sandrine Rousseau proposes reduce the energy bill by better insulating buildings and transforming mobility. “This is what we are missing, how we really change our mobility, the individual cars which are the main mode of transport of the French, so that those who really need it do not depend on the increase in energy , gasoline ?”, she added. “How we get around the table to make ultralight vehicles, while we are in a headlong rush on the weight of vehicles that consume more and more”, she denounced.
On the nuclear issue, Sandrine Rousseau reiterated her wish, which she says she shares with Yannick Jadot, to stop reactors which “are reaching the end of their life”. “We are putting all our money into the extension of something that we do not know how to stop completely”, she denounced. “Let’s be reasonable, work on ending this energy, put in place research to ensure that these plants are shut down and invest massively in renewable energies and in an energy mix “, insisted the ecologist. “At what point should we stop when we are going in a direction that is not the right one? How far are we stubbornly? France must change its energy excess because nuclear today is at the end of life”, she said concerning the EPR, while calling for political responsibility against “industrial blindness”.