Fuel Prices: A Welcome Drop, but Not Yet Widespread

This text corresponds to part of the transcription of the report above. Click on the video to watch it in full. There was a long queue at a gas station in Île-de-France this Sunday morning.

Everyone came for the price: 2.13 euros per liter of diesel. “The prices are still a little cheaper than elsewhere, so people automatically come there,” confirms a motorist. This drop of 21 cents per liter in one day was expected by drivers, notably Sophie Taillade: “I needed to refuel, I waited on purpose for it to drop, because indeed, it is relatively expensive, so yes, I came specially this morning for that.

"In a neighboring station, the reduction is 10 cents per liter. Enough to relieve Rudy Bessler, who drives 250 kilometers every day. "I think it will save me between 50 and 100 euros anyway, which is not negligible in a month these days," he says.

"It's still much too expensive. It should come down to normal prices, around 1.50 euros," said another motorist. A slight drop on a national scale This Sunday evening, November 1, three brands have already reduced their prices, but, on a national scale, the average price of diesel has only fallen by 3 cents.

Because in many stations, for the moment, no change. This is the case near Bordeaux (Gironde), where a liter of diesel is still priced at 2.40 euros. “I think we’re all the same.

We are all waiting for the same thing: for prices to drop and for us to improve our quality of life,” says a man. These stations are waiting for new deliveries, cheaper thanks to the release of strategic stocks. In some places, you will have to wait.

“I fear that in some cases, it could take a week, or even ten days to irrigate the smallest service station in the countryside,” announces Francis Pousse of Énergies nouvelles at Mobilians. In total, 10 million barrels of strategic stocks purchased cheaper before the war will be released. Enough to lower prices for a period of three months.

Machine-translated from French