Fuel shortage. In Toulouse, some service stations are seeing their turnover explode
The fuel shortage continues. A hassle for motorists, but an opportunity for certain service stations in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne). One of them saw its turnover increase by 400%!
Obtain fuel at all costs. Even though on Saturday, October 15, the government announced a drop in service stations caused by supply problems, the waiting files still do not show up. “I don’t feel like it’s getting better. Fine speeches saw later. For the moment it remains more complicated than usual“assures a Toulouse motorist.
For many residents, the most important thing is to be able to get to work whatever the cost and even if it means putting aside certain projects.I canceled a weekend in Narbonne, we explain one of them. The round trip is almost 300 km. It’s not more fuel. So I don’t take any risk.”
Some are rubbing their hands at the situation, like this independent station located in the suburbs of Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) which has never known such attendance. “Before the shortage, it was a fairly expensive gas station in general, explains a motorist waiting to be able to use it. But there since the shortage we have seen waiting files of more than 100 meters.
The number of customers was multiplied by 5, causing the turnover of this establishment to explode by more than 400%! Yet the liter of Diesel amounts to 2,151 euros. Others in the Toulouse region, the poster even at €2.29/litre.
Prices still far from those of Ile-de-France where prices at the pump are thus starting to soar. They often reach €2.20 and sometimes even approach €3.
The Minister for the Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, announced on Saturday October 15 that she had seized the repression of fraud, the DGCCRF, in the face of such tariffs and to verify that the State rebate of 30 cents is applied.