This measure, which will be “valid on all fuels”, will apply for four months, said the Prime Minister on Saturday.
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A “discount at the pump of 15 centimes per liter” will apply from April 1 and for four months for all French people, in order to cope with soaring fuel prices, announced Jean Castex at the Parisian, Saturday, March 12. This measure will concern both households and businesses and will be “valid on all fuels”, said the Prime Minister. It will cost around 2 billion euros to the State.
“The average of 2 euros per liter, for diesel and lead-free, is exceeded on national territory and this is likely to last”, underlined Jean Castex, while the soaring prices were accentuated by the war in Ukraine. With this discount, “for every 60 liters you will save 9 euros”noted the Prime Minister.
He specified that the price displayed would always be the same “at the entrance to the station”, “but by paying with your credit card or at the cash desk”the consumer “will benefit from a reduction of 15 cents per litre”. The State will reimburse this sum to the distributors. Jean Castex also called on the latter, as well as the tankers, to “make a complementary gesture”. “If the State makes an effort of 15 cents per litre, and if they make an effort of 5 cents, for example, it is indeed 20 cents that must end up in the pocket of the French”he said.