It is not to understand anything there.
Prices at the pump have been breaking record after record for a few weeks, while the price of oil remains very far from its all-time highs.
What arouse the questioning, even the suspicion, of the customers of the service stations.
The liter of SP95 gasoline reached 1.65 euros on average on October 15, according to the statement by the French Union of Petroleum Industries (Ufip).
Diesel, for its part, peaked at 1.55 euros.
Levels never seen before, even during the oil crisis of 2008, when the barrel broke the ceiling of 130 dollars.
At the time, the SP95 had barely exceeded the threshold of 1.50 euros and diesel that of 1.46 euros.
Today, the barrel does not exceed 85 dollars and the prices at the pump are higher.
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