Fuel prices: TotalEnergies plans to lower the cap for some customers

2024-07-06 21:07:06

Will the CEO of TotalEnergies, Patrick Pouyanné offer an additional discount on fuel prices for his customers subscribing to his gas-electric supply? If the group promises to lower the price of its fuel at 1.99 euros for all users, it announced during the economic meetings in Aix-en-Provence that it can be reduced for its subscribers.

“This size, yes it is there, yes it will stay,” said the manager of the French giant, about this cap. “I also noticed, for those who are subscribers to TotalEnergies gas and electricity, and those who have bought gasoline, maybe lower the ceiling,” he added.

Asked after the round table, Patrick Pouyanné, however, refused to give details on this possible measure. “The decision I made,” he continued to the audience about the hat, “was not entirely rational. I only do it in French. “

“This is our problem, we live in this society”

“For what? Because somewhere I clearly see that faced with this question of the cost of power, there is growing anger,” he continued. Businesses, and I believe more and more, in this complex, fractured world, undoubtedly have an increasingly important role to consider,” he said.

While fuel prices have followed a downward trend in recent months, this cap has 1.99 per liter in the first service stations in rural areas, where their delivery costs more. “It is a policy that has completely met the authority of France, it is clear,” the head of the CAC 40 group noted.

According to him, “it corresponds to a form of corporate responsibility, in which I believe. In this debate, we, companies, must intervene with concrete actions,” he emphasized. “We cannot simply said all this is not our problembecause it is our problem, we live in this society”, concludes Patrick Pouyanné, he says that he hopes that “the French effort returns to something good”.

The President has already indicated at the beginning of 2024 that the cap will be maintained for the current year, and “maybe even beyond”. The group has not provided a figure on the possible cost of this measure, implemented for the first time in 2023, when costs are very high.