“I needed to refuel”: diesel prices down, gas prices up

This text corresponds to part of the transcription of the report above. Click on the video to watch it in full. The drop in the price of diesel is the big promise of November 1st.

At a gas station in Île-de-France, it's 21 cents less per liter. A motorist waited this Sunday to come and help herself. “I needed to refill, I purposely waited for it to drop, because it’s relatively expensive,” she confides.

A real relief for the wallet, even if the price is still considered too high. “It’s still way too expensive. It needs to come down to normal prices, around €1.50,” says one man.

The other good news from November 1 concerns supplementary pensions. After two years of freezing, due to lack of agreement between social partners, they are increased by 1.4% from Sunday. For a retired trader, the account is not really there.

"It's good, but it's not enough today. Given the purchasing power we have now, as retirees, we have worked all our lives and for us, it's not much. But it's always better than nothing," she reacts.

New rules on small bank overdraftsOn the other hand, cooking and heating with gas will cost more. The indexed rate has been increased by 6.6% on average since Sunday morning. This increase is in addition to that of September.

A general practitioner, who already heats herself to less than 19 degrees, will have to reduce her consumption further: "I don't know if I will be able to set an even lower threshold compared to the expected temperature." Finally, new rules concern small bank overdrafts. From November 20, before granting them, banks will have to systematically check the solvency of their customers.

Machine-translated from French