The government refuses to slow down on the highway to 110 km/h. But the measure is still defended by some, including the engineer and professor Jean-Marc Jancovici, a specialist in energy transition, a guest of Apolline de Malherbe on BFMTV-RMC this Thursday.
The president of the Shift Project, an association whose objective is to reduce the use of fossil fuels, considers that limiting the maximum speed on main roads is not a problem in the rest of the countries that have already implemented it.
“There are already many countries that have speed limits like this and I don’t feel that people are committing suicide there, I don’t feel that they are extremely unhappy,” he justifies in particular.
The United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden and Brazil are among the countries with a maximum speed equal to or close to 110 km/h on the equivalent of our motorways.
“Everything depends on the pedagogy of the problem”
Jean-Marc Jancovici minimizes the possibility of social unrest as a reaction to the introduction of such a measure, such as the criticisms that arose from the reduction of speed from 90 to 80 km/h on certain roads and that make the government cautious today about the issue of 110 km / h.
“Everything depends on the pedagogy of the problem, but I think that people are not completely stupid,” says the specialist.
According to him, the question must be posed to the French in such a way as to underline what is at stake in the situation: “Anyway, we will have to make do with less oil: do you prefer that there is a little for everyone and one drives 110 or what can, who can afford it, it leads to 130 and the others nothing. Which do you prefer?
The engineer also reminds us that at 130 km/h we consume an average of 20% more fuel than at 110 km/h. If the direct consequence is a reduction in CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, it also underlines the “social problem” that the non-reduction of the maximum and therefore average speed on the roads entails because “it leaves less for others if the total amount [de pétrole] it’s over.
Source: BFM TV
