Heavy vehicles that transport hydrocarbons will be able to circulate on All Saints’ Day in order to supply service stations due to “tensions in the supply of fuels observed in national territory,” according to a decree published this Saturday, October 29 in the Official Gazette. .
From Monday to Wednesday
Given the “tensions in the supply of fuel observed in national territory”, the prohibitions on the circulation of transport vehicles of more than 7.5 tons provided for by a previous decree are lifted for Monday, October 31, Tuesday, November 1 April 2021. and Wednesday, November 2 for “vehicles that transport hydrocarbon products, with the exception of butane, propane and gases for industrial use”.
These vehicles will be able to circulate during these three days “in order to allow the supply between the oil tanks as well as from the oil tanks to the distribution points and final customers”, and return empty. The executive has already taken four orders in this regard since October 7.
Government radio silence
The government no longer provides statistics on the number of gas stations that have run out of fuel since October 20. Consequence of the reduction of TotalEnergies, which caused an unusual influx to the network since September 1, and, secondly, of the movement, initiated by the CGT on September 27, with supply difficulties throughout the country.
“At the national level, the situation has improved significantly, but there are still tensions in Ile-de-France, and to a lesser extent in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté,” a Ministry spokesman told AFP on Saturday. of Energy Transition.
Another season in four in difficulty
“What the prefects notice is that the stations have fewer difficulties and therefore have fewer reflexes to declare” on the site https://www.prix-carburants.gouv.fr, which is supposed to report on the situation but remains unreliable since the start of the shortage. “Hence the fact that some stations sometimes appear to be sold out when they are no longer,” he noted.
“The particular tensions will disappear in a few days. The improvement should be seen this weekend,” the president of the French Union of Petroleum Industries (Ufip), Olivier Gantois, assured Franceinfo on Friday. The difficulties still relate mainly to unleaded gasoline, which is not imported, according to him.
Two TotalEnergies sites continued the movement on Saturday: the Gonfreville-L’Orcher refinery (Seine-Maritime) and the Feyzin depot (Lyon metropolis).
This Saturday morning, according to the survey via the mon-essence.fr website (Essence&Co application), there were still 718 stations in total rupture and 2,169 stations in partial rupture, that is, more than 25% of the stations in difficulty throughout the territory.
Source: BFM TV
