Fuel shortage: where to find fuel? The list by city of open stations

PETROL SHORTAGE CARD. The beginning of the week seems to mark an improvement in petrol stations the day after the first departures for the All Saints school holidays. What is the situation in petrol stations before the big weekend of November 1? Our search engine helps you find gasoline available near you in one click.

[Mis à jour le 24 octobre 2022 à 15h46] A calmer start to the week for French motorists. In this period of school holidays and All Saints, the situation has improved and the shortage of gasoline could soon be a bad memory. The main axes and motorway stations have been favored, the government had specified as the weekend of holiday departures approached and the latest official figures communicated show a clear improvement in the country’s gas stations.

This Monday, the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune gave a new figure, assuring that “a little more than 10% of service stations are still in difficulty”, specifying on the antenna of France Info that this data means that there “missing at least one product”. Friday, October 21, according to the latest figures sent by the government before the weekend, 13.1% of stations, or 1,304 out of 9,976, were still out of fuel (petrol and diesel) at the national level. At the same time, the number of stations in difficulty, including those lacking only one type of fuelstill accounted for 25% of stations.

The government identifies, via the services of the Ministry of Transition and the Ministry of the Economy, the maximum amount of data available in petrol stations. However, national figures, like station-by-station data, should be taken with caution, as they depend on the goodwill of service station operators. In the refineries of the TotalEnergies group, the situation remains tense with a renewal of the strike on Saturday at the Feyzin site in the Rhône until Monday, while the strike has already been renewed until October 27 on the site. of Gonfreville L’Orcher in Seine-Maritime.

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 and available on the official website: https://www.fuel-prices.gouv.fr/. It is up to the point of sale concerned to declare its available fuels and its prices, as well as the dates and times of updates to the ministry.

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.gouv.fr/. This operation generates some limits, the first being that of the absence of recent updates in many stations. Some prices or availability have not been entered for several days. Here is the manual anyway:

• 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.

You will find above a list published based on feedback from users of the app and the Mon Essence.fr website. Ile-de-France saw its stocks quickly empty after the start of strike movements in Normandy, on fuel depots which massively supply the Paris agglomeration. However, the situation seemed to be improving as the All Saints holidays approached.

A map published based on feedback from users of the Mon Essence.fr app and site and centered on Marseille is available above. The Marseille conurbation was one of the first to be affected by the gasoline shortage in early October and the situation remains difficult in places.

A map published based on feedback from users of the Mon Essence.fr app and website and centered on Lyon is available above. The Lyon conurbation is not one of the most affected regions, but several stations are still reported to be in a situation of shortage of one or more fuels.