The scarcity of gasoline and electrical energy and their exorbitant costs are inflicting a serious financial disaster. Corporations can now not pay their payments, and energy cuts threaten the well being and security of the French. And it’s not over but…
The query is now not whether or not or not there shall be energy outages in France, however when. Emmanuel Macron’s rant from Tirana, Albania, the place he’s attending a European summit, won’t change that. The vitality disaster is hitting our economic system arduous and will trigger severe dysfunction within the nation.
Who says so? To begin with, essentially the most involved industrialist, RTE, in control of the transport and distribution of electrical energy, warned on November 18 about sturdy dangers of load shedding if the chilly climate units in. This might have an effect on the complete nationwide territory.
Then, the Minister of the Financial system, Bruno Le Maire, who declared on December 5, 2022 on France-Inter: “We have now requested EDF to do all the things crucial to make sure that the nuclear reactors run at full energy in the beginning of subsequent yr. Within the meantime, everybody should cut back their vitality consumption, calls the Minister of the Financial system.”
Unavoidable energy cuts
Lastly, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, despatched a 9-page round to prefects on November 30 to arrange them for potential energy cuts. The round asks prefects to outline the areas the place electrical energy shouldn’t be minimize off for safety causes: hospitals, police stations, prisons, hearth stations, and many others. Alerts shall be launched the day earlier than through the EcoWatt utility.
We will perceive the priority of the French folks after they be taught concerning the dangers of energy cuts, in two-hour increments. People who find themselves cared for at house and require medical tools equivalent to medical beds, synthetic respirators, and many others. worry for his or her lives. The facility cuts additionally indicate, within the affected areas, the stopping of visitors lights at crossroads, the stopping of elevators in buildings, heating, computer systems, telephones… The facility cuts additionally indicate the stopping of trains, the closing down of faculties and companies that use electrical energy to run their machines. In brief, a giant mess that nobody can anticipate.
This debate is absurd,” says the President of the Republic, referring to the controversy surrounding these points. Cease all this! We’re a terrific nation, we’ve got a terrific vitality mannequin, we’ll maintain this winter regardless of the battle. The situations of worry, not for me.”
Corporations can now not pay the payments
Nonetheless, there’s not solely the scarcity of electrical energy, but in addition its exorbitant worth. And due to this fact unsustainable for a lot of corporations, small, medium or giant. We now not depend the variety of artisan bakers pressured to shut down, farmers pressured to extend the price of meat and milk, corporations which are pressured to place their employees on short-time. This was the case a number of months in the past for the glassmaker Duralex, the steelmaker Ascométal and a few others.
This Tuesday, December 6, 2022, it’s the flip of the meals group Cofigeo, which markets manufacturers equivalent to William Saurin, Garbit, Raynal, and many others., to cease manufacturing in 4 of its eight crops. As of January 2, 2023, 800 of its 1,200 workers shall be on long-term partial exercise (LTPA). Certainly, the group should face a tenfold enhance in its electrical energy and gasoline invoice!
The outstanding enhance within the worth of gasoline, electrical energy and gasoline, which our leaders didn’t anticipate, is inflicting a serious financial disaster, the horrible harm of which we’ve got not but seen. The economic system is collapsing earlier than our eyes and the President of the Republic finds the talk “absurd”. What a rustic!
“Cease à tout ça ! Nous allons tenir cet hiver”
Le recadrage ferme d’Emmanuel Macron face aux “scénarios de la peur” des coupures d’électricité pic.twitter.com/iAt01nOGjs
— BFMTV (@BFMTV) December 6, 2022
