Opposing the pension reform, the CGT-Chemistry decided to block French refineries, five months after their strikes. Even if the various blockages have been lifted in depots and refineries for a few days, 5% of stations are still in difficulty (including only 17% in Île-de-France). The time to restart production being quite long, the situation which is gradually improving is not ready to return to normal immediately.
Indeed, as of Saturday April 8, 2023, 5.1% of French service stations were experiencing a shortage of gasoline (SP98, SP95, E10), or diesel, according to Fig Data.
Following these blockages, gasoline has seen its price increase. Reaching more than two euros per liter, the SP98 saw a price increase of several cents. Considered “in difficulty” if at 1 p.m. the service station is partially out of fuel (either gasoline or diesel) or totally (all of its fuels), 14 French departments have at least 10% of stations in difficulty.
Conversely, some departments are not at all affected by this shortage, as is the case for the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Vaucluse which do not identify any service stations out of stock.
In total, 6 French departments have at least 20% of stations out of fuel. Find out in our slideshow if yours is one of them: