Particularly mobilized against pension reform, striking oil refinery workers have no intention of slacking off. As a consequence, supply difficulties at service stations are increasing day by day.
“Now, with the warehouses on strike and five of the six refineries closed, the objective is to hold out until the withdrawal” of the text, Eric Sellini, the CGT’s national coordinator of Chemistry, explained to AFP.
According to figures from the UFIP (organization that groups energy and oil companies), this Friday morning there is a 15% shortage of at least one fuel nationwide.
With strong regional disparities:
- Loire Valley: 36%
- Brittany: 34%
- Bale: 29%
- Île-de-France: 17%
- Normandy: 16%
Still according to the UFIP, between 5 and 10 deposits are still blocked out of the 200 in France.
According to Auto-Moto.com, on the morning of this Friday, March 24, 2,161 service stations had a shortage of at least one type of fuel (against 1,200 on March 21), including 972 in total shortage.
More than 2,000 service stations without at least one fuel
Given these supply difficulties, fuel purchase restrictions are in force until Monday, March 27 in the Vaucluse and Gard departments. Private individuals are entitled to 30 liters for passenger cars and 120 liters for vehicles over 3.5 tons.
However, the supply of fuels to the Paris basin by Totalenergies’ largest French refinery in Gonfreville-L’Orcher in Normandy resumed on Friday after a police intervention, the minister for Energy Transition said. , Agnès Pannier.-Runcher.
“Pumping has been restarted” and “this makes it possible to supply Ile-de-France”, declared the minister, questioned by RMC.
According to Eric Sellini, “shipments will only resume, very partially and if they are successful, and in a single product, kerosene because the Paris airports are dry.”
The Government, for its part, has “three to four months” of reserves “to deal with any type of crisis” and in which the Government has been pulling since the beginning of March, recalled Agnès Pannier-Runacher. “The issue is not stock but logistics,” she said.
Source: BFM TV
