While the strike by refinery employees only affects two TotalEnergies sites, in Normandy and in the Rhône, some 14.5% of service stations at the national level still lacked at least one type of fuel (gasoline or diesel). ), against 21% on Monday, on a sample of 9,900 stations which served it on September 20, before the strike movement.
Other departments where fuel remains more difficult to find: Nièvre (39% partial ruptures, 24% of stations completely dry) and Yvelines, with 40% of stations lacking at least one fuel and 10% no 'by selling none.
The Rhône department is still in difficulty, with 16% of stations without any fuel and 31% affected by shortages, in the same way as Haute-Savoie (9% and 29% respectively).
The situation is less tense in the Bouches-du-Rhône, with Marseille, where 13% of stations are still encountering difficulties.
The Paris region under tension
The situation remains more tense in the Paris region, with 62% of stations affected by the lack of fuel at least in Hauts-de-Seine, 50% in Paris, 46% in Val-de-Marne and 42% in Seine-Saint-Denis.
In Paris, a third of the stations are completely dry, compared to 16% in Hauts-de-Seine and a fifth in the other departments of the inner suburbs of the capital.
In the Val-d'Oise, 21% of the stations did not sell any fuel.
The situation has improved, however, in Puy-de-Dôme, the department most affected at the start of the week with 58% of stations in partial or total shortage and which now appears in eighth position with 37% of stations lacking at least less fuel.
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Gasoline shortages are much more frequent than those of diesel: 13% of service stations that offered it on September 20 did not sell it on Wednesday, compared to 7% for diesel.
At the peak of the strike, just under half of the stations in France ran out of fuel, of which a third were completely dry, according to several media estimates, including AFP.