Hello!
"We had already passed the measures favoring the purchase of less greedy vehicles
In June, all the media loudly announced that vehicles with high consumption would be taxed on the purchase and that the money from this tax would be redistributed in the form of rebate to those who would choose to buy a vehicle consuming little . This measure had the double advantage of dissuading (a little) those who choose "unnecessary" pollution (like the 4-4 in the city) and of giving a "boost" to those who can afford to pay "only" a small car.
But in July, the project was put aside because it led to a drop in fuel consumption and therefore a drop in state revenues.
now we are still being forced to consume and pollute more! "
The reduction in speed due to road prevention campaigns, the price of fuels, etc. led to a 1% drop in fuel consumption. Good news from the point of view of polluting emissions but disaster for the coffers of the State which are left with a fall in income and a hole of 1 billion Euros which have not returned.
How to fill this shortfall? The government believes it has found the answer: to increase fuel consumption.
How to bring back the consumption, which has bad press, without becoming unpopular? answer: make sure people don't notice it and make up a bogus trick.
And that's how, by forcing motorists to drive on lights, they are forced to consume more fuel.
What is perverse in this story is that:
1) The safety of other users is sacrificed on the altar of money and electoral popularity
2) We pass a varnish of good feelings (so-called security, etc.) on motivations not pretty-pretty. (And we take people for idiots.)
3) We still make the choice of oil instead of trying to get out of this spiral that we constantly denounce on econology.
I hope I have not been too long, but it seems important to me because it is representative of our society that walks on its head.