“Up to -40%”: the boss of Coopérative U evokes a “real collapse in fuel consumption”
“People no longer move”, they “stay at home, sacrifice a lot of things” because the price of fuel “is weighing too much on their budget to date”, observes Dominique Schelcher.
The CEO of Coopérative U, Dominique Schelcher, on Tuesday October 27 described fuel consumption in October as a “real collapse”, the price of which has soared in recent months due to the war in the Middle East. “The most striking thing currently” is the “real collapse in fuel consumption” in October, the boss of the mass distribution group expressed emotion on CNews/Europe 1. “At Coopérative U, it’s -10 in volume since the start of the year (...
) and there, we have (service stations) in October, it’s up to -40% in consumption volume,” quantified the manager. Who explains the reasons: “People no longer move”, they “stay at home, sacrifice a lot of things” because the price of fuel “is weighing too much on their budget at the moment”. In mid-October, the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, promised that diesel prices would fall for consumers “from November 1” thanks to the clearance of millions of barrels and the goodwill of distributors.
The expected drop in the price at the pump could range from 12 to 18 cents per liter, according to the government, which would represent “around ten euros of savings with each fill-up on average”. But the modalities of this initiative must “still be worked on this week, there are several meetings with the government to settle the subject”, nuanced Dominique Schelcher. “It will give a little breath of fresh air from next week but it will not be every day and not all the time because it will only be a part of the consumption that is affected,” he further warned.
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