yvesvidal

Actually, it is $8 a gallon for French people. Each liter of gasoline is taxed at more than 88%.
Diesel was not so expensive before, because it is used by Trucks and for heating houses. However, the new Macron based government decided to put the Diesel price on par with Gasoline.
You have to know that most French vehicles are using Diesel engines.....and that change makes a lot of people unhappy.

Yves

wc11

Why wear a "Hey I'm easy to identify" bright yellow vest when protesting, destroying & looting?
Not too smart those French.
Maybe they should have consulted the Black Block

yvesvidal

The Yellow jacket is the symbol of drivers. French laws require that you have such high-visibility vests in each vehicle, in case of accidents, breakdown, flat tires or when you have to stop on the side of the road.

Because the new taxation reforms are mostly affecting drivers and diesel/fuel prices, drivers of all French vehicles have embraced the infamous and mandatory yellow jackets as their logo and symbol. Besides, they are not trying to hide, just expressing their disapprobation. So called "Casseurs" (destroyers) are another group which is taking advantage of all social upheavals, to commit lots of destruction. These casseurs are not driving anything, are mostly migrants and lower layers of the society who are not integrated and whose sole purpose is to destroy and cause havoc (i.e. Hooligans).

Yves

Yves

Prelude Guy

Hmmm, that's weird. I watch MSNBC and CNN all the time but I haven't heard anything about this! Are you suuuuuuure this is happening? Oh well.

*Watching CNN and hearing how great the caravan is

Astur

As a Spaniard who now spends 4-5 months out of the year over there (I'm retired), Spanish law requires that you wear this vest while stopping and exiting your vehicle on any road.

The vest must be within the vehicle and accessible at all times. As an incentive please know that the fines for not complying are enough to help you remember in the future. So if ever you were to rent a car over there please keep this in mind and also know that all rental cars have one in the glove box.

BTW, the jackets are not yellow but rather an iridescent light green. The same color the clothes that all road workers must use while performing their duties.

ABusLux

A real asturiano? I was born and raised East from you, in Bilbao.

Here in Switzerland people don't understand what's going on in France, but the Swiss are a tad more civilised than that. In fact the Swiss never understood why the French and other European governments were subsidizing diesel (because that's happening in France is not really a tax increase, but a removal of tax breaks on diesel vs gasoline which is also happening in Spain), nor do they understand, in their environmentally-friendly consciousness, that so many Europeans spent their money buying cars that expel clouds of black fumes through their exhausts.

Anyway, France is the country of strikes and violent demonstrations; the country where cars are burnt, public equipment vandalized and shops looted just because, so this should not be a surprise. And all this because of some 6 cents of a euro increase per liter of diesel; a little over a quarter dollar per gallon.

JABowders

...where did I put my Flame Thrower? Never underestimate the stupidity of large groups of people.

Austin997.2

That caravan is a Hollywood script and those are paid actors in Tijuana that are having rocks thrown at them by the citizens in Tijuana.

Edgy01

This is not just about fuel taxes. It is about forced immigration.