Shortage of gasoline: deliveries at a standstill, what impact on stations?

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Shortage of gasoline deliveries at a standstill what impact on

PETROL SHORTAGE CARD. Not a drop of fuel will come out of refineries this Tuesday, March 7. Petrol stations will therefore not be supplied. With what consequences?

Will France run out of fuel in the coming days ? This Tuesday, March 7, 2023, no truck will leave the various refineries present in the territory to supply the country’s gas stations. CGT-Chimie has announced that it is blocking all shipments to all sites of TotalEnergies, Esso-ExxonMobil and Petroineos. Without delivery of gasoline or diesel, will service stations quickly run dry, leading to queues lasting several hours and fuel rationing like last fall? Rest assured, these scenes should not happen right away. Despite a blockage of refineries, service stations are, at this stage, sufficiently supplied to meet demand. “Stocks are high,” says the Union Française des Industries Pétrolières, Energies et Mobilités, an organization bringing together oil companies. “In anticipation of social movements, oil distributors have restocked fuels and put themselves in a maximum stock situation”, warned Olivier Gantois, the president, in the Turbo program. But how long can stations last without supplies? That’s the whole question…

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.

Another alternative 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 completely up to date or updated regularly, but it provides an overall map of the situation in France.

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