- + 004% for tobacco. + 7% for gas. And even “+ 20% ”for the CSG. An illustration seen several million times in a viral Facebook post suggests massive increases in 2017.
- This illustration began to be shared on social networks in 2017, and has been very successful in groups of “yellow vests”, where it has been regularly shared for more than two years. At the time, the displayed figures were already wrong.
17 Minutes dissects this misleading visual, and reviews the real increases that came into effect on January 1 2021.
” Let’s go for 2021! »From a visual shared thousands of times on Facebook , this new year would be synonymous with a massive increase in prices and others for the French.
In this illustration, a man, a sort of modern Sisyphus, is dressed in a huge rock symbolizing the taxes which weigh on his back. Around him, the increases to come are detailed, like so many blows to his 
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A reverse image search reveals that this illustration has been circulating on the Internet since the end of the year 2021. She then enjoyed frank popularity on the Facebook groups of “yellow vests” – movement created in the same period for 
In 2018, this illustration was already false. For example, the price of electricity had increased by 0.8% in February 2018 , before falling 0.3% in August, when the illustration showed an increase of 17%. The same goes for the technical inspections which, after having were reformed in May 2021 , then saw their price increase on average by 12, 8% (according to a study by Simplauto.com ) and not from 23%, as stated in the document.
And for 2021 then ?
Although the price increases are the sad prerogative of the new year, this illustration is not more prophetic for 2018. Take, for example, the stamps (+ 004% on the illustration), whose price increased by an average of 4.7 % as of January 1 and which will no longer be sold below one euro in France.
Regarding electricity (+ 17% on the illustration), the trend is well on the increase but in lesser proportions. The Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) published its draft decisions for the tariffs applicable to the transmission and distribution of electricity applicable on August 1 2021 and for four years. The structure provides for “average tariff increases of 1. 39% per year for RTE and of 1, 57% per year for Enedis , i.e. an increase of approximately 13 euros of the annual invoice of an individual on the horizon 2024 ”. On the gas side (+ 7% in the illustration), CRE announces that Engie’s regulatory prices increase by 0.2% on average on January 1.