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Translate the provided text to Spanish, please: It was a lie, and now we are having to foot a much higher bill. The third cause is the excessive, even insane, taxation practised by the Member States, and this proto-socialist policy has been continued, if not actually initiated, by conservative governments. It is maintained under pressure from green organisations which are hostile to the motor car because it represents freedom for the individual.
It is taxation of this kind which multiplies the increase in farm gate prices by a factor of 3, 4 or 5.
The alignment of our foreign policy with that of the United States, the depreciation of the euro as a currency and the increase in taxation due to pressure from green campaigners are the three causes of the increase, which we deplore but for which our institutions bear a very heavy responsibility.
Mr President, Commissioner, in the last fortnight, we have seen a real euro-shambles where transport is concerned, with a petrol shortage, road blockades, mass protests and governments disabled.
You really would have thought you were back in 1973 after the first oil crisis.
And that is not counting the plummeting euro and the explosion in the price of a barrel of crude oil, factors not anticipated in the past oracular pronouncements by self-styled experts on Europe.
Largely predictable though it was, this crisis is as much the responsibility of the oil producers as of government.
Many varied solutions have been put forward, for the situations and the reasons for them are different from one country to another.
Many of these solutions are perfectly rational and obvious and, occasionally, ideological such as restrictions on vehicles or the eco-tax but, as you reminded us, none of these is a panacea that will in itself sort out the situation.
It should be remembered that what chiefly distinguishes the fuel question is its relation to currency and taxation issues and the way it goes on to affect urban and rural planning. For, if this crisis affects people in their working lives, it also affects people in their private lives, especially in rural areas where the car is still too often the main means of transport and communication and the one to which people resort. It is a situation resulting from the gradual withdrawal of public services which has not been offset by private operators, who are much too concerned with maximising their profits.
Strategies relating to taxation, the currency and urban and rural planning are matters for each Member State and each Member State alone, in accordance with the sacrosanct principle of subsidiarity.
To conclude, we want to see lower fuel tax because, at present, it is too much of a burden on the people of Europe, in both their private and working lives. However, there are additional strategies open to our Member States.
The European Union must leave the latter free to exercise their sovereignty in making judicious strategy choices when it comes to energy savings, supplementary forms of renewable energy, the redistribution of freight to the railways and rivers and the development of public transport and the opening up of rural areas.
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 Hemos mentido, y en consecuencia, la factura se ha encarecido . El tercer motivo es la fiscalidad excesiva, incluso demencial, aplicada por los Estados, y esta política socializante se ha visto prolongada, cuando no iniciada, por los gobiernos conservadores.
 Alineamiento de nuestra política exterior con la de Estados Unidos, depreciación monetaria del euro, fiscalidad agravada por las presiones de los movimientos ecologistas: estas son las tres causas del encarecimiento, que deploramos, pero en el cual nuestras instituciones tienen una responsabilidad muy grande. Señor Presidente, Señora Comisaria, durante estos últimos quince días, hemos asistido a un verdadero "eurocaos" de los transportes: escasez de gasolina, bloqueos de carreteras, protestas sociales, gobiernos paralizados. Verdaderamente, parecía que estábamos en 1973, después de la primera crisis del petróleo. Esto sin contar con el súbito incremento del barril de crudo y la caída libre del euro, a pesar de las pasadas predicciones de los supuestos expertos europeos. De esta crisis, que, con todo, era ampliamente previsible, son igualmente responsables los productores de petróleo y el gobierno. Se han avanzado numerosas y diversas soluciones, ya que las situaciones y sus causas difieren de un Estado a otro. Estas soluciones son con frecuencia evidentes o racionales, a veces ideológicas, como la limitación de los vehículos o la ecotasa, pero ninguna de ellas es la panacea, - lo ha recordado Usted -, ni resolverá la situación por sí sola. Recordemos que la pertinencia de la cuestión de los carburantes se basa principalmente en la moneda y la fiscalidad, sin dejar de repercutir sobre la ordenación territorial. Porque si esta crisis penaliza a los profesionales, afecta también a los particulares, especialmente a los de las zonas rurales, dónde el coche sigue siendo con demasiada frecuencia el principal y último medio de comunicación y de transporte.
Esta situación se deriva del progresivo desentendimiento por parte de los servicios públicos, no compensado por las empresas de servicios privadas, demasiado preocupadas por la búsqueda de la máxima rentabilidad.
En lo relativo a la fiscalidad, la moneda y la ordenación territorial, estas políticas deben surgir de cada Estado miembro y sólo de él, y ello en virtud del sacrosanto principio de subsidiariedad.
Para concluir, deseamos que la tributación de los carburantes no sea tan elevada, ya que penaliza en exceso a nuestros conciudadanos, particulares o profesionales. Se abren para nuestros Estados vías complementarias.
La Unión debe concederles libertad para elegir soberanamente la política que consideren más adecuada, tal y como ha sucedido con el ahorro energético, con las energías renovables complementarias, con la reorientación de los fletes hacia el transporte ferroviario y fluvial, o también con el desarrollo del transporte colectivo o con la integración territorial de las zonas rurales.