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The report’s recitals maintain that “high oil prices and price fluctuations affect the poorer sectors of the population disproportionately”. The explanatory statement also states that price increases are basically the result of speculation. All the other factors, however, demonstrate the self-inflicted powerlessness of the European institutions, and indeed of the Member States, to intervene.
Each speculative price increase represents a huge levy imposed by some oil groups and capitalist middlemen on the population, including the poorest sections, who pay directly or indirectly.
With regard to the Member States, not only do they fail to intervene to put a stop to these increases, they also profit from them through fuel taxes, which is yet another indirect tax, as unfair as VAT, because it hits the richest and the poorest in the same way.
It is untrue that the public authorities could not ban price increases. It is untrue that they cannot abolish tax on fuel for personal use. The Commission is incapable of taking the measures that are required and is content to reel off hollow phrases. We have therefore voted against this report."@en1
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