“It’s starting to be complicated for many French people”: the drop in fuel prices eagerly awaited by motorists

This text corresponds to part of the transcription of the report above. Click on the video to watch it in full. A motorist is not fully stocking up: he is waiting for the price drop on Sunday November 1st.

"It has to happen now because it's starting to be complicated for many French people, including me. I travel 80 km every day. The diesel budget for me has become a real annoying subject," he explains.

Prices at the pump should fall between 12 and 18 euro cents per liter of diesel. The average full should therefore be 10 euros cheaper. To do this, the State draws on its strategic reserves: 10 million released barrels sold at very low prices to distributors who undertake to pass on these reductions at the pump.

Gas stations will have to display their discounts These discounts are a relief for gas station operators. “We are roughly at 2.40, 2.45 at the moment on diesel. So a discount, if it is that, of 15 cents, we have every interest in achieving it so that our consumers can return to our stations.

It’s definitely going to be fluctuating. In any case, it will be present," explains Francis Pousse, president of the service station branch of the Mobilians network. Each station should inform customers of the discount made with a poster.

The government specifies that checks will be carried out by the competition and fraud prevention department.

Machine-translated from French