“The department has been providing targeted release of strategic reserves since early March,” the Department of Energy told the agency on Tuesday.
On Tuesday morning, an average of 8% of service stations in France stopped supplying at least one of the most popular types of gasoline (95 and 98) and diesel. In Marseille, this situation is observed in more than half of the service stations, and their number continues to increase, according to franceinfo. The publication’s correspondent reports that the queue for refueling in this port city in the south of France is no longer stretched by dozens, but reaches at least hundreds of meters. The customer must wait at least one hour to refuel his car.
At the same time, the majority of motorists questioned are in spite of everything in solidarity with the trade union movement and are above all indignant at the French government which has lost control of the supply of fuel to refineries.