This is good news for All Saints holidaymakers. Heavy goods vehicles transporting hydrocarbons will be able to circulate on Monday October 31, Tuesday November 1 and Wednesday November 2, in order to supply service stations who are running out of fuel. A decree was published this Saturday in the Official Journal. The situation continues to improve at national level but there are still supply tensions in Ile-de-France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Two TotalEnergies sites are still on strike: the Gonfreville-L’Orcher refinery
(Seine-Maritime) and the Feyzin depot (Lyon metropolis).
The fourth arrested since October 7
In view of “tensions on the supply of fuels observed on the national territory”bans on the circulation of transport vehicles of more than 7.5 tonnes provided for by a previous decree of April 2021 are closed for Monday October 31, Tuesday November 1 and Wednesday November 2 for “vehicles for transporting hydrocarbon products, with the exception of butane, propane and gases for industrial use”.
These vehicles will be able to circulate during these three days “in order to allow supplies between oil depots as well as from oil depots to distribution points and end customers”, and return empty. The executive has already taken four orders in this direction since October 7.
The situation is improving at the national level
The government no longer gives statistics on the number of service stations running out of fuel, a consequence of the movement, started by the CGT on September 27, which caused supply difficulties throughout the country. “At the national level, the situation has improved significantly, but there are still tensions in Ile-de-France, and to a lesser extent in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté”, said Saturday at AFP a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Energy Transition. Start of the week, “10% of service stations”
were “still struggling”according to Transport Minister Clément Beaune.
“What the prefects are seeing is that the stations have fewer difficulties and therefore have less of a reflex to declare on the site” https://www.prix-carburants.gouv.fr
, which is supposed to account for food. “Hence the fact that some stations sometimes appear out of stock when they are no longer”she remarked.
“The particular tensions will disappear within a few days. The improvement should be seen by this weekend”, assured Franceinfo on Friday the president of the French Union of Petroleum Industries (Ufip), Olivier Gantois. Difficulties still concern especially unleaded gasolinewhich is not imported, according to him.