PETROL SHORTAGE CARD. The number of dry filling stations has increased dramatically since the beginning of the week, especially in the southeast. What is the situation near you? Here is all the information and maps of gas stations.
[Mis à jour le 21 mars à 13h25] Faced with the specter of a gasoline shortage with service stations already dry, particularly in the south-east, the State took the first steps through the prefects of several departments this Tuesday, March 21, 2023. the case in particular in Vaucluse and Gard where the purchase of fuel (gasoline, bio-ethanol, diesel such as LPG) is limited to 30 liters for cars and vehicles under 3.5 tonnes and 120 liters for heavy goods vehicles over 3.5 tons. Filling jerry cans is also prohibited, as in the Var. The situation has become significantly tense in recent hours if we rely on the figures reported by the government.
According to Le Figaro, if 9.5% of the country’s service stations are out of stock on at least one fuel this Tuesday March 21 in the morning but the disparities are strong between the departments with nearly 50% of the stations in difficulty in the Bouches du Rhône, against 40% in the Gard, 33% in the Vaucluse or even 23% in the Var. It should be noted that Loire-Atlantique is also experiencing rupture situations with 29% of stations in difficulty.
Faced with the blocking of many refineries with an intensification of the movement since March 7, the Ministry of Energy Transition announced on Tuesday May 21 to activate the requisition of “three employees per shift” on the Fos-sur-Mer site, a large oil depot. The objective is precisely to reduce the difficulties of supplying service stations in the Bouches-du-Rhône.
We have set up a search engine to find the list of fuels available in the stations of a department and/or a city. Only the places where the station managers have indicated the gasoline available and its price are displayed. The information is classified by date and time of update (“MAD”), to maximize your chances of finding fuel:
This search engine is based on the “instant flow” of fuel prices in France, provided by the Ministry of the Economy, is available on the official website: https://www.fuel-prices.
The Ministry of the Economy also provides a map and a search engine. To facilitate your search, first fill in your region, your department or directly your municipality to display the stations near you.
This search engine and this map are made from the “instant flow” of fuel prices in France, provided by the Ministry of the Economy and available on the official website: https://www.fuel-prices.
- By zooming in and then clicking on a point on the map, you can display all the information about the station and scroll through the prices of each fuel with arrows.
- Out-of-stock fuels are either explicitly mentioned on the map, or absent from the stations
- It is up to the point of sale concerned to declare its station and its prices to the Ministry. Some groups, such as Total, also provide data that is sometimes more detailed.
Another possibility is to use the map developed by the MonEssence.fr app, which is usually used to identify fuel prices near you based on feedback from users who themselves fill in the prices observed at the pump. In times of shortage, the app puts a map of the shortage online, always based on user feedback. It is not always fully up to date or regularly updated, but it provides an overall map of the situation in France.