Usually, Julien rather watches the price counter scroll. But the, it is the literature that interests him. “I’m going to go over the comma. 30 liters 45! I like to round to the comma, to the euro and not to the liter rather”, he said laughing. On the diesel pump, a leaf indicates “30 liters max” since Wednesday morning. It was the station manager, David Pelletier, who decided to impose a limit on motorists. Tuesday, he found himself dry, there was not enough diesel in the tanks.
30 liters of diesel maximum per person
David Pelletier is delivered with fuel two to three times a week. But since the delivery of 20 cents by Total, and the start of the strikes, the attendance of its small service station in La Roque-Gageac has skyrocketed. And he can no longer follow. “We have more demand from our customers than deliveries. It’s unheard of, people are panicked. They take the grandmother’s car, the grandfather’s car, if they have three cars they go fill the three cars. It’s nonsense”, is indignant the gas station attendant. So Wednesday morning, he decided to impose a limit of 30 liters per person on diesel, so that everyone has it, and so that he is not obliged to completely close his station.
Closed Saturday morning
In the station, there is a queue but no one complains. Valérine is a nursing assistant in an Ehpad, and to go to work, she has to travel several kilometers every day. For her, all stations should impose limits. “If I can’t go to work, the residents have no one. The previous days, I saw people filling the cans and I was worried. Especially since we live in the countryside! If we don’t have no fuel, we have no tram, no bike!”she exclaims.
Like Valérine, most motorists welcome the 30-litre limit. David Pelletier has chosen to save fuel for professionals, such as hospital ambulances. But despite these restrictions, it will still have to close on Saturday morningpending the next fuel delivery on Monday morning.