At the pump, the queues of motorists become a daily spectacle.
"
There I woke up at 4am to be able to look for gasoline, I'll be waiting for 4 hours
“, according to a witness quoted by AFP.
Parisian stations which limit fillings to 30 euros per customer, others which take advantage of this to display prices at more than 2 euros per liter, traffic jams over several hundred meters on the motorways, concerts of horns... Since two weeks, the French struggled a little more each day to fill up with fuel.
This Monday, 30% of service stations are now affected, with much greater difficulties in the northern half of the country.
Hauts-de-France are particularly affected (54.8% of resorts).
Second struggling region: Île-de-France, where 44.9% of stations are "
out of at least one product
", according to the Ministry of Energy Transition.
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The figure of 30% confirms the worsening of the situation.
On Wednesday, the government spokesman, Olivier Véran, had mentioned 12% of stations concerned.
According to the Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, we had gone to 15% on Thursday, then to 19% on Friday.
On Saturday, the Ministry of Energy Transition reported 20.7% of service stations struggling to obtain supplies.
Elisabeth Borne assured Sunday, on the sidelines of a trip to Algeria, that fuel supply tensions in service stations would "
improve throughout the week ", as "
deliveries
" arrive.
from French “
strategic stocks
” in particular .
“
We have released strategic stocks
” of fuels “
to supply service stations
” and “
these deliveries are coming gradually
”, she continued.
“
The measures we have taken have made it possible to increase deliveries by 20% compared to the usual flows
”, further specified the head of government, saying that she was following the evolution “
very closely
".
