Nell’articolo di Le Temps si discute della proposta del Parlamento svizzero di aumentare il prezzo della benzina di 4 centesimi al litro. L’idea è che questo piccolo sovrapprezzo contribuirebbe a ridurre la congestione del traffico sulle autostrade scoraggiando l’uso eccessivo dell’auto, generando allo stesso tempo fondi per sostenere le infrastrutture e il trasporto pubblico. La misura sta guadagnando terreno tra i legislatori, anche se solleva dibattiti sull’equità, sull’impatto ambientale e sull’onere per i conducenti, soprattutto quelli nelle zone rurali che fanno molto affidamento sulle automobili.
Personalmente sosterresti il pagamento di un po’ di più per la benzina se ciò significasse meno congestione sulle autostrade e maggiori investimenti nei trasporti pubblici, o ritieni che questa misura penalizzi ingiustamente gli automobilisti che dipendono dalle loro auto?
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/payer-l-essence-4-centimes-plus-chere-pour-desengorger-les-autoroutes-l-idee-fait-son-chemin-au-parlement
di peters-mith
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It won’t change anything, other than burden working people on middle to low income.
I would support a price increase, but not using that money to build more roads.
A price increase that goes to public transport, and/or offsets the various social measures we voted on however (13th AHV etc…) would get my vote.
come on let’s be realistic… nobody will be encouraged to drive less because of a 4 cents increase….
so people really think that if gasoline becomes 4 cents more expensive, people will drive less?
Ah yes, i use my car for hobby and unecerray use. Ah, i want to pay for public transportation AND a car so much, yes please you donkeys, increase the price.
We saw that even at 2chf/l people still went around with the car.
Just one more lane bro, trust me, that’ll fix everything. Induced demand is a thing.
Most people that use their car are ALLERGIC to public transport…They will tell you with a straight face taking the bus is soooooooo expensive will driving their car everywhere…Also my bus line literally cannot take more people during the heavy traffic hour because there’s not enough space in the bus so it’s not even a solution…
What the hell ? Any price increase ends up punishing the poor.
A pack of cigarettes now costs about CHF 7. It didn’t stop people from smoking, even though that represents an increase of over 300 % in the last, what, 20 years?
I’m all for it.
Ok how about this: halve the GA price & watch the low & middle earners switch. I bet money there would be less traffic.
So they just want more money, like everywhere else. small amounts overtime.
Like the frog in boiling water.
Increase it by one franc and use the money to fix some of the massive issues caused by traffic thanks.
Nobody will be discouraged by this. The only thing this will do is to decrease the spending power of the lower and middle class.
what about making it cheaper and easier for commuters to use the öv instead?, how about make better öv connections in rural areas?, so that instead of taking 1,5 hours to get into the city it would go down to a similar time or lesser time than by car? How about incentivize öv instead of penalizing the ones that need a car or truck for work, think about all the trade-workers that need their Vans for work ?….
This is again just a way to gather more money for whatever.
they should incentivise car pooling. all the cars during commute are empty
When they increase it car owners will cry a lot, but will continue to drive just as much as they did before. And then a few years later they buy an even bigger car.
Given the low price elasticity of demand for fuel, that’s a ridiculous statement
It is like taxes on tobacco. A raise of price will always trigger a much lower drop of demand.
It’s an easy way to milk taxpayers.
No, i dont like to reduce my wage. Cant take public transport so it would just hurt me. This would mainly affect the lower classes and countryside
What a joke. This is just another layer of tax that will do nothing to address chronic underinvestment in infrastructure that has made getting around in Switzerland a time consuming and insanely expensive ordeal.
In the end it’s impacting the poorer more than the rich for a problem mostly created by the rich.
Instead of all this nonsense regarding gas/cars/public transport they’d better make remote work mandatory for all work that is possible. All those people traveling to Zürich or Bern just to sit in large office buildings all day. Would be much better for the enviroment to not travel at all and make more space for those who actually need to touch and move stuff for work.