should fuel be subsidized?

What should the government do in the face of soaring fuel prices? “We should make a republican shock of solidarity, which would notably go through a real redistribution movement”, answers Christophe Ramaux, economist and teacher at the Sorbonne, Tuesday July 5, on the 11 p.m. set of franceinfo. According to him, it is necessary “taxing excess profits” large companies and “targeted redistribution” to the French.

For his part, Étienne Lefebvre, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Les Échos, believes that the measures proposed by the opposition parties “are all bad”. “Subsidizing the price of gasoline in general is a nonsense”he explains. “I do not believe at all in the price freeze at 1.40 euros per liter (the Nupes proposal). Are you going to tell a company that it has to sell at a loss? That does not make sense”argues Étienne Lefebvre.