Expensive fuels: the difficult daily life of French people in rural areas

Everyone has their own worries. Up there, with their eyes fixed on the polls, the great tacticians in the campaign weigh up and weigh the political interest of organizing primaries, voting on a budget or initiating censorship. Down below, things are more down to earth: we wonder how to fill up at the pump. With the explosion in fuel prices, millions of French people are no longer able to make ends meet.

Such is life in “rurality”, as they say in Paris: a thousand miles from the lessons on soft mobility, dear to urbanites haunted by the end of the world, the people of small towns and the countryside must take their diesel cars (they were once lectured to make this choice in the name of ecology) at every moment of their daily life. To go to work, do your shopping, accompany your children, visit your parents. Many would gladly do without swallowing so many kilometers by emptying their bank account. But, whatever the friends of…