The deep discontent provoked by past and coming increases of fuels taxation is a further sign of the political leaders incapacity to establish a right diagnostic about the situations they propose to correct, to elaborate the appropriated policies and to make them accepted by their citizens. The increase of the taxes levied on fuels and the convergence at the top between gasoline and diesel has, as an objective, to favor “energy transition”. But this policy, prompted by laudable intentions, is based on a confusion which has been at the origin of many errors.
Climate warming is generated by the accumulation ...