Fuel protests turn violent in Paris

Politico ^ | November 24, 2018 | ANCA GURZU

[xp38]

If they had a sense of humour they could have sprayed them with gasoline.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Our neighbor is set to escape from here in favor of wintering near Fort Myers...

[trebb]

Ms Gulf Coast is now down to $1.21/gallon....was paying $3.15+ for premium and now under $1.75.

Funny how them socialist places have high prices from over taxation..when I was in Italy in late '70s, gas was about the same for a liter as we were paying for a gallon....and they taxed car radios so many, with no radios, weren't grounded properly which made for popping static on TV and radio in the house as they drove by.

[niteowl77]

I wonder if there will be Yellow Jacket protests in California against the rise in gas taxes in order to pay for their Train to Nowhere. I believe the original cost was supposed to be about $10 billion but is now approaching $100 billion for that high speed train which was originally supposed to go from L.A. to San Francisco but has now been scaled back to end up at....Fresno?

If the men who built and ran Iowa's WWI-era interurbans could see this, they'd be shoving yellow jackets up somebody's ashpan. They built fast, they built cheap (relatively), and by 1918, they could run electric coaches between terminals at an astonishing rate. What is more, they also managed to run freight trains at night.

I noticed the gasoline prices dropping steadily here in Iowa too. We may be barbarians and/or yokels, but we're barbarians and/or yokels who are out driving around.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I remember walking the interurban from Mystic to Brazil (Iowa.)

[bytesmith]

Nice. $2.03 here in northern SC at Costco.

[C19fan]

To the barricades once again.

[Libloather]

Ew - water cannons. I like water cannons.

[I want the USA back]

Nice to see that some people still have the balls to fight an oppressive government.

Macron is a liberal masquerading as a centrist.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Hopefully $1.99/gal soon down here in South Florida.”

Saw 1.86 in San Antonio yesterday.

[dfwgator]

The French riot against higher taxes.

Americans vote for higher taxes.

[dfwgator]

“Do you hear the people sing?”

[haircutter]

Nice...I always fill up when on my way to Georgia, in SC...

Here in Somerset County, PA..(The Wolfe state) gas is still high, at $2.80 gal. and people voted the Wolfe back for a second term...smh, this family didn't but then we are just a grain of sand and don't count...smh again...It is the voters in Pittsburgh and Philly that control this state, and they mostly don't work, so no skin off them..let the workers pay to keep them..

Certainly sad days ahead for all of us with the Democrats taking over the House, maybe (hopefully) voters will wake up by 2020..

[C19fan]

LOL!!! When the revolutionaries bring out the Red Flag in Les Mis I cheer for the Orleanist forces to mow them all down.

[niteowl77]

That was the Mystic-to-Centerville branch of the SI, wasn't it? It was under overhead wire even longer than the WCF&N, if my memory is correct.

The worst of the old coal mine and steel rail "robber barons" couldn't hold a candle to the current collection of California crooks.

(Unintentional alliteration gone wild... but what the heck.)

[catnipman]

nothing to see here ... move along ... transportation fuel taxes will be moot in 2040 anyway when when france has outlawed all internal combustion vehicles ...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Yes. The interurban ran to Centerville.
My old hometown of Mystic is still there.
Brazil, Darby, Monkey, Iconium, Confidence and Plano are gone.

[goodnesswins]

I was In Paris in mid 70s...gas was at least $4/lite then, I think

[Tax-chick]

Yeah, that’s a lot, but we’ve had 25% fluctuations in fuel prices.

[BenLurkin]

"Macron has insisted that the fuel tax rises are a necessary pain to reduce France's dependence on fossil fuels and fund renewable energy investments"

https://www.foxnews.com/world/french-police-use-tear-gas-water-cannon-against-paris-protesters