Fuels: will prices really fall everywhere in France from November 1?

This text corresponds to part of the transcription of the report above. Click on the video to watch it in full. Tracking down the best prices has become an obsession for a motorist whose fuel expenses represent 200 euros every month.

So for the past few weeks, he has been using an app. “[I use it] all the time, to scrape a little money on gasoline,” he admits. Prices must decrease by 12 to 18 cents per liter depending on the distributors.

A promise from the government which releases its strategic oil stocks at very low prices to distributors, with discounts expected at the stations. “It’s not much for those who work every day, who drive miles and miles,” notes a motorist despite everything. A drop that might not be visible immediately everywhereA drop that should be visible from November 1, but according to a representative of independent distributors, this will not be the case everywhere.

"To tell you today if it will start on Monday, I don't think in the smallest stations, [it will be] depending on the date on which their suppliers will have access to these famous strategic stocks", admits Francis Pousse, national president of fuel and new energy distributors of the Mobilians union. Even before the arrival of these strategic stocks, the TotalEnergies group is announcing a reduction from tomorrow in more than 700 stations, 10 cents on the liter of diesel, which will therefore go from 2.25 euros to 2.15 euros. A VTC driver has done his calculations, he will save 6 euros on his fill-up: “6 euros is a difference.

We go into a store, we can buy things, not much, but we buy. “In mass distribution, certain groups confirmed to France Télévisions a reduction but from November 2, without specifying the exact amount.

Machine-translated from French