2023-05-09 00:31:30
In its weekly update, the Ministry of Energy Transition published this Tuesday the prices at the pump observed last week. As a result, those who drive SP 95-E10 must now pay an average of 1.9246 euros per liter, an increase of 1.4 cents compared to the previous week. For diesel, the trend is the opposite with a significant drop of 0.8 cents, bringing the price per liter to 1.8014 euros. This is called a “scissor effect”.
Why these opposite evolutions, while the two fuels are refined from the same original product, crude oil, of which the barrel of Brent has risen once more, taking 7.70 dollars in one week to settle at $84.60? “Thank you for the strike!” replies, a bit provocatively, Francis Pousse, president of the service station branch of the professional union Mobilians. Traditionally, we are self-sufficient in gasoline, that is to say that our refineries manage to produce enough for our national consumption, knowing that it represents 30% of all of our fuel consumption, the remaining 70% coming from diesel. »
But the strike in part of the seven refineries in mainland France (an eighth is located in Martinique) temporarily upset the situation. And we had to compensate by buying gasoline on the markets. “The sellers saw us coming, and they probably took advantage of it to make a little extra margin. We find the difference currently in the prices at the pump. »
“The lull might be short-lived”
For how long ? The strike at the TotalEnergies refinery in Gonfreville-l’Orcher (Seine-Maritime) once morest the pension reform was suspended on Tuesday. And even if it will probably take several weeks for a return to normal, following a gradual “cooling down” of the installation since March 18, we can hope for a return to calm in gasoline prices during May. .
Especially since this suspension of the movement in Normandy follows that voted at the TotalEnergies refinery in Donges (Loire-Atlantique) last Friday, as well as at the end of the blockages at the La Mède biorefinery, near Marseille, and oil terminals at the Grand Port maritime de Marseille-Fos.
“Be careful, however, warns a specialist in the oil and fuel markets, the lull might be short-lived. With the arrival of summer, and the driving season for the Americans, very large consumers of unleaded, we might quickly find tensions on the markets, and therefore see the prices of gasoline start to rise once more. »
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