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A victory for Labour at the castle Pyyrrhus

Last Wednesday in the Senate Finance Committee, it was decided that écoredevance would be postponed to early 2013, against 2,012 previously planned.

I can say that I won a battle against this new tax (and who knows, maybe I'm for something, for as unlikely as it sounds).

But war is not over so far, although I know beforehand that I fight like David against Goliath, or like my hero Don Quixote against the windmills of his day, and my opponent has ways more important than me - because I'm all alone against a host of officials.

What I said again, I have absolutely nothing against a transfer of modes of transport other than road, I'm even for such transfer in cases where possible, as this would be less traffic on our roads are increasingly congested with all sorts of vehicles.

But if you look at the figures for only the Ile de France, one can see that average distance traveled by traffic exchanges are very short.

In November 2010, the fuel traveling at an average distance of 22 km, 159 km on agricultural products, and metal products 192 km. These figures include modes road, rail and river, and one can easily assume that the shortest distances are made by road, reducing property heard the average distance for this mode of transport.

So believe that putting an extra tax on the road we come to a massive transfer to other modes, it puts a finger in the eye.

What may happen is a massive transfer on small roads untaxed because many carriers try to avoid toll roads, as some are already trying to avoid toll roads. Let this be a good solution, I'm not convinced!

In addition, every year a greater number of roads are closed to trucks, so we can not even deliver some recipients legally.

In the region of Fecamp, there was a supermarket, accessible by road from one side but not the other. Since a superstore chain has installed another nearby panel prohibition> 3.5ta been moved so that deliveries of the first supermarket are prohibited.

At least one carrier has requested that law how to get there, but without having had an answer. Its trucks are going anyway, defying the prohibitions, as they are bound by their contracts. *)

And people are happy to be able to do their shopping in a store where the shelves are not empty, since not everyone has abandoned the former for the latter.

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*) I said although I am not personally affected by this problem. The hypermarket in question is not one of our customers, we are not customers of the supermarket ... I should therefore do not care, but I can not, because this is not an isolated example. It has become something common. Very well informed.