The government and the Sweden Democrats have agreed to lower the reduction obligation to six percent on gasoline and diesel at the turn of the year, from today’s 7.8 percent for gasoline and 30.5 percent for diesel. The goal is, among other things, to lower the diesel price by SEK 5.50 per liter.
— The voters of the Sweden Democrats are now starting to get sober about broken promises. They promised to lower the price at the pump by ten kroner, and now there is further information about something that will happen in the future, but the consequences of the policy are not known. The last time they said they were lowering the tax by one crown, it was 14 öre. Once again, there is a lot of talk but little is delivered, says Mikael Damberg.
Will pressure the government
The Tidö parties present the news in a debate article in Dagens Nyheter. Damberg highlights that the consequences of a reduction in the reduction obligation are not reported and says that S should press the government for answers about it.
— Sweden must still achieve our environmental goals and EU legislation and then the question is what other measures the government will take. There is zero of this in the article, he says, pointing to the Liberals’ previous discussions of environmental measures in the form of speed limits, congestion taxes and the purchase of emissions rights abroad.
— You have to present the whole of the policy so that you understand what this party costs, and how the environmental goals are to be achieved.
Stenevi: Trams
The government and SD justify themselves, among other things, by wanting to make it easier financially for families with children and the elderly. The parties also say that electrification is more important for reaching the climate goals.
“To claim that this is for the sake of families with children is nonsense. The reduction will above all benefit high-income earners in big cities, and the families with children and pensioners who have it the hardest are not helped at all by this,” writes the Green Party’s spokeswoman Märta Stenevi on Twitter.
“Gigantic Betrayal”
She describes it as “a gigantic betrayal of our children” that locks Sweden into fossil fuel dependence.
“I can draw no other conclusion than that the government has now abandoned the climate goals. By first cutting electrification and now increasing the import of petrol and diesel, emissions from transport will increase, not decrease.”
Damberg thinks there are better ways to reduce costs for private individuals.
— The government has actively chosen to refrain from increasing the child benefit and to direct extra support to single people, not least women who are having the hardest time among families with children right now.