Historic fall in diesel and gasoline deliveries in France: motorists are playing it safe and have changed their habits

This text corresponds to part of the transcription of the report above. Click on the video to watch it in full. Refueling is always very complicated for a retiree.

Even though fuel has fallen, by almost 20 cents at a station in Englos, in the North, the former carer, who receives a pension of 1,000 euros per month, limits her travel. “It’s fewer outings, making as few trips as possible, then like everyone else, saving money, because life is very expensive,” she confides. She specifies that she uses her car, “for shopping, water packs, potatoes…” Habits are being disrupted and French people are driving less and less.

Consequence: diesel deliveries in France fell by 20% and 9% for gasoline, this is unprecedented. This craftsman, for example, moves half as far as before. For him, sites that are too far away have become too expensive: “When we take on sites more than 40 km away, the travel costs go up, and then the clients don’t accept them.

There, I have to do construction work around my house," points out Rémy Taffin, plasterer-plasterer in Santes (North). He spends more than 300 euros on fuel per month. He fills his tank drop by drop, according to his needs.

A 10% drop in the price of a barrel since the Democratic victory in the United States, fluctuating costs and motorists, who prefer to remain cautious. A business manager is counting on a lasting fall in prices thanks to the release of strategic stocks: "Not necessarily to go back to the costs of a year ago, but I think that between 20 and 30 cents per liter, that would already be back on the price that we could have had for the year 2025. It is certain that the current political climate is very complicated and we are attentive to what is happening", comments Karim Fraouti, motorist, from a station Lille.

Fuel could continue to fall. Since the Democratic victory in the United States, the price of a barrel has fallen by 10%.

Machine-translated from French