The total is filled. Since September 1 and the introduction of a bonus of 20 euro cents per liter of fuel in addition to the 30 cents from the Government, long queues of motorists have formed in front of the oil group’s service stations.
If TotalEnergies assures that this new discount will cost around 500 million euros, it also allows it to increase the frequency of stations by around 40% compared to the same period last year, the company tells BFM Business. And that after having seen frequentation of its motorway stations jump this summer from 20 to 25% thanks to a 12-cent discount, the group’s CEO, Patrick Pouyanné, had stressed at BSmart.
supply difficulties
The rush to the TotalEnergies stations is such that some have run out of fuel. If the group refutes the term “shortage”, it acknowledges that a small minority of stations have had and continue to have supply difficulties.
But this situation “was foreseeable” and will be “temporary,” says the oil giant, which believes that the assistance will end up “softening in the coming days.” In the meantime, TotalEnergies says it will continue to make additional deliveries to supply stations taken by the storm.
It is not enough to satisfy everyone. In Hauts-de-France, prison officers in charge of transferring detainees were used to using professional cards to refuel their service vehicles only at TotalEnergies stations. But given the supply problems and the high influx of the latter, now they are invited to advance the fuel costs themselves at other stations.
Source: BFM TV
