The thing is...especially with the diesel tax ‘bump-up’ (29 cents per gallon)....with 70-percent of French people owning a diesel car...it’s an outrageous tax. Cops, firefighters, regular people....they are all affected. Why would you stand and oppose the riot?
I don’t see the tax surviving. If Macron continues on and talks about meeting people face-to-face....he has no desire to delete the tax. The riots will continue through spring and possibly affect the EU election in June 2019, my prediction.
That's nothing compared to the UK that wants to ban diesel cars altogether. Perhaps that will be the next step.