It's probably worth noting that France has recently allowed again to sell fuel below cost (at least temporarily)... which I guess isn't particularly surprising,

It's probably worth noting that France has recently allowed again to sell fuel below cost (at least temporarily)... which I guess isn't particularly surprising, since it has had been led for 6 years now by one of these far-right neoliberals. Which I guess is a great example of the unidimensional labeling being ridiculous in politics : the anti-government, pro-monopoly, anti-free-market top right being radically different from the pro-free-market, anti-monopoly bottom right. (IIRC Marx said that the bottom right were useful idiots for the top right ? But this is probably his failure at seeing history as something cyclical, I very much doubt that both the current situation can continue for long and that it spells doom for capitalism in general.)