INSEE announced last Thursday his concern about the rate of economic growth of our country for this year. Without going into a display of figures, not always easy to read and analyze for ordinary mortals It will appear that the purchasing power is unlikely to expand enough ... The sustained rise in consumer prices remain high, the order of + 3.2% for the same year with a peak at + 3.6% in July! Brief an inflation level unobserved since 1991!
In general gloom prevailing, INSEE starts to hurt see Bercy and Matignon! Ms. Lagarde forecasts nice try "overly pessimistic", he does promise that the election of Nicolas Sarkozy, wanting to be the "president of purchasing power" is still making evil!
Fuel and food are the main responsible for this inflation of prices, and no concrete government action seems to be emerging on the horizon ...
regards petroleum products, Mr Fillon said last week during a visit in Alsace, as lower fuel prices would be a "historical misunderstanding", we should not encourage the consumption of hydrocarbons. However, the Head of Government forgets to mention that the increase was at least as brutal and the 74% and 67% taxes, respectively, on gasoline and diesel, were important to him Gold ... Black has never so aptly named!
To buy food, it is clear that we must, sooner or later, change our behavior. We can not bring ourselves to one side to make efforts on our fuel consumption, and let another "flood" our stalls of fruits and vegetables at low cost, but large energy consumers. The products of "cons-season", coming sometimes from across the world, have indeed, in addition to being flavor of poor quality, the drawback of spending a large amount of fuel to reach our markets. Not to mention the crops in greenhouses in winter, such as tomatoes from Holland for example. Mr Fillon could then talk of "misinterpretation gourmet!
The world organization WWF has also recently shown to deliver in February, to Europe a bunch of asparagus from Peru, he had to burn about 5 gallons of oil ...
today to address this problem purchasing power of food, associations for the preservation of peasant agriculture (CSA), are developing. It's actually a partnership based on a mutual commitment between a farm, often organic, and a consumer group. They support the operation by purchasing individually to advance a share of the harvest season. This support is to cover the budget of the farm and make it operational.
It would be nice to create and support more organizations such as those existing in Gerardmer, in Déodatie or SENONGES, especially since our Vosges concentrates 51% of the 234 organic farmers that currently Lorraine!
As they say, in France it has no oil but a few ideas ... and Asparagus is also good!
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