You may already be seeing this at nearby gas stations: the queues are getting thinner and it’s easier to find places to refuel. This is not just an impression as the regular figures from the Ministries of Energy Transition and Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion confirm this improvement. Currently, 20.3% of French service stations have run out of at least one fuel compared to a third last weekend.
The social movement at refineries and depot centers is eroding as only two TotalEnergies sites remain on strike, namely the Gonfreville-l’Orcher refinery in Normandy and the Feyzin fuel depot near Lyon. In detail, the improvement is observed in all the French regions, although some remain at levels of tension that are still worrying, such as Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, but also Île-de-France.
No return to normal before the holidays
The All Saints festivities, which begin on the night of Friday the 21st, were the horizon scrutinized by a large part of the French motorists who feared running out of fuel to escape for a few days. Despite rapid daily voltage reductions at gas stations, a return to normal is unlikely to happen until this weekend, according to industry experts.
Guest on the BFMTV morning program this Thursday, the president of the branch of service stations and new energies of the Mobilians professional union believes, however, that the brilliance will already be noticeable in the first days of the vacation period: “Since we don’t have all the normal flow of oil, I think we still have to wait 15 days for it to normalize, but nevertheless within a week we should have about 80% of the compliant stock at the service station. French Union of Petroleum Industries also does not hide its optimism:
Source: BFM TV
