The proportion of service stations in France that offer neither gasoline nor diesel rose in mid-October to 31% nationally, and to almost half in Hauts-de-France, according to official data analyzed by AFP, a shortage more accused than the situation described. by the Government.
The refinery strike began on September 27 at TotalEnergies, gradually increasing fuel shortages across France.
One figure illustrates the growing shortage that paralyzes French stations: on October 17, only 53% of stations sold both gasoline and diesel, compared to 92% before the strike on September 24, according to an analysis by the official AFP and public data available on the website prix-carburants.gouv.fr. By noon on Thursday, this proportion had risen to 69%.
These are the national averages. Some regions, such as Hauts-de-France with 49% of stations fully broken on October 11 or Ile-de-France with 47% on October 10, were more affected than others.
During the crisis, the Ministry of Energy Transition communicated daily the proportion of stations “in difficulty”, that is, lacking at least one fuel, between diesel and gasoline (SP95, SP95-E10, SP98). This government barometer rose to 31% national average, on October 11, and fell Thursday night to 16.9%.
One in three was closed
The data analyzed by AFP indicates that the ruptures were much greater, since around one station in three was closed, to which the stations that lacked one or another of the fuels had to be added.
There are around 9,900 active service stations in France, which provide their prices every day on a portal of the Ministry of the Economy, an obligation more or less respected and that concerns those that sell more than 500 cubic meters a year. These data can be downloaded from prix-carburants.gouv.fr.
The ministry, questioned by AFP, explained that it only counted the stations that declare “pause”, but not the stations that mark another box saying that a fuel “is not distributed” for other reasons, a category that is not distinguished in public data; the ministry did not want to provide its full data, including this category.
Elevator times may also have a marginal influence (a few points) on the observed rupture rate.
Despite these differences, the trend clearly continues to improve this week, thanks to the requisitions of striking employees and the suspension of strikes at Esso-ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies, with only the last two headquarters of the French oil group remaining on strike this Thursday.
Source: BFM TV
