{"id":40724,"date":"2018-11-20T07:24:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T12:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40724"},"modified":"2018-11-20T07:24:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T12:24:13","slug":"anti-carbon-revolt-massive-road-blocks-against-macrons-diesel-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40724","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Carbon Revolt: Massive Road Blocks Against Macron’s Diesel Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In stunning irony, the French protest against Macron’s diesel tax, while Macron insists the UK abide by climate accord.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Please consider France\u2019s Climate Change Commitments Trigger Rising Diesel Prices and Street Protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Saturday, more than 282,700 people, many clad in yellow vests, took to \u2014 and, in many places, also literally took \u2014 the streets, according to the French Interior Ministry. The ministry said a network of drivers blocked roads at some 2,000 locations across the country, generating backups for miles and causing one death.<\/p>\n

The protesters\u2019 chief complaint: the rising cost of diesel fuel. The recent price hike is a direct result of President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s commitment to curbing climate change, which included higher carbon taxes for 2018, the first full year of his term. But beyond the diesel issue, many turned out Saturday to voice any number of other frustrations with the \u201cpresident for the rich,\u201d who is seen as increasingly removed from ordinary people\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n

The stirrings of the \u201cyellow vest\u201d campaign behind Saturday\u2019s protests began this summer, with online petitions urging Macron to reconsider. But the loudest voice was that of Jacline Mouraud, a white-haired hypnotist and grandmother of three from Brittany who has become the star of the movement.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Mouraud was asked to explain the death of the protester. \u201cI deplore the death of this woman,\u201d she said, speaking to Europe 1 radio. \u201cBut who is responsible for this situation? The French government is responsible for the death of this woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a poll published Friday by the Odoxa agency for France\u2019s Le Figaro newspaper \u2014 albeit with only 1,000 respondents \u2014 as many as 3 in 4 French people agree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The lead image is from Anti-Carbon-Tax Revolt Threatens to Paralyze France<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Anti-Carbon Revolt: Massive Road Blocks Against Macron’s Diesel Tax In stunning irony, the French protest against Macron’s diesel tax, while Macron insists the UK abide by climate accord. Please consider France\u2019s Climate Change Commitments Trigger Rising Diesel Prices and Street Protests. On Saturday, more than 282,700 people, many clad in yellow vests, took to \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[23082,23081,15342,333,14648,13390,657],"class_list":["post-40724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-liberty","tag-anti-carbon-protest","tag-diesel-tax","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-michael-shedlock","tag-mishtalk","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40725,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40724\/revisions\/40725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}