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The fuel crisis in France is getting worse. Macron calls for calm, but over 20% of the pumps are dry

Strikes in French refineries are putting the country on its knees, but Macron says to ignore it and not to panic. Too bad that, as you can see from the map below, over 20% of fuel pumps in France are dry, many stations are completely closed and especially in the north of the country the situation is becoming dramatic.

The map shows the partially empty stations in yellow, those completely closed in red 8 from the penurie.mon-essence.fr website)

There are large areas now without fuel, but rest assured, French cousins, everything is fine, do not panic !!

“Don't panic”, President Emmanuel Macron declared on Friday (7 October) , urging the French people to “calm down” in the face of the fuel shortage observed in some regions. The French president urged the employees of the TotalEnergies group to be "responsible", despite "legitimate wage demands".

"I know the concern of many of our compatriots" for fuel. “I really want to send a message here (…) inviting calm,” he said at a press conference following an informal European summit in Prague. “I also ask everyone to be responsible. (…) All wage demands are legitimate, but they must not prevent people from living and moving ”.

Perfect, great, but if wage demands are legitimate, why aren't they met by putting an end to this country-splitting crisis?

The government is also asking companies to make an effort, but apparently they do not have much intention of giving it to the demonstrators, otherwise the crisis situation would have been over for some time. Macron does not have the credibility to make other promises or close deals and therefore it goes on for exhaustion, with the large refineries Exxon and Total blocked. Meanwhile, the French have the worst.


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The article The fuel crisis in France gets worse. Macron calls for calm, but over 20% of the pumps are dry comes from ScenariEconomici.it .


This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/la-crisi-del-carburante-in-francia-peggiora-macron-chiama-alla-calma-ma-oltre-20-delle-pompe-sono-a-secco/ on Sun, 09 Oct 2022 13:43:17 +0000.