“We will continue if necessary”: after the spectacular drop of 22 cents at the pump, the government open to a new release of strategic fuel stocks
According to the Minister of the Economy, "7,600 service stations out of 10,000 have lowered prices. And in those, it's 22 cents lower."
Minister of Commerce and SMEs Serge Papin declared Tuesday that the government "will continue if necessary" to release part of strategic fuel stocks to cushion the impact of their increase since the conflict in the Middle East. “We will continue if necessary. These are things that are renewable,” he said on RMC.
“Currently it is 10% of strategic stocks that have been released, only for diesel,” recalled the minister. Asked in parallel on Sud Radio about the duration of this drop in prices at the pump, the Minister of the Economy Roland Lescure recalled that stocks had been released for "three months, November, December, January". “And then, we’ll see,” he said, hoping for a “delamination” of the conflict after the American elections.
According to Roland Lescure, “7,600 service stations out of 10,000 have lowered prices.
And in those, it's 22 cents lower." And "on average, across the entire network, including those which do not yet benefit from strategic stocks, which have not yet lowered their prices, it's 19 cents.
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