A new boost at the pump. TotalEnergies announces this Thursday morning to “temporarily” extend to all fuels the price freeze at a maximum of 1.99 euros per liter from Friday.
The measure, implemented since March 1 in all the stations of the group, which concentrates around a third of the approximately 10,000 French stations, excluded high-end Excellium diesel and unleaded 98 products.
“The price freeze measure initiated in March therefore also applies to the Excellium product range (SP98 – Diesel Excellium) until the stations no longer experience supply difficulties”, according to the press release.
Until the end of the “supply difficulties”
“Some stations are out of one or more products, this expansion will allow our customers to benefit from the measure regardless of the product,” a source inside the group told AFP.
The measure concerning the Excellium range will apply “until the stations no longer experience supply difficulties”, according to the same source, which recalls that since March 1 the prices of the classic range (simple diesel and petrol SP95) are capped for the whole of 2023.
On Wednesday morning, 6.95% of service stations were in short supply of at least one of the fuels (gasoline and/or diesel) they offered on March 1, according to the analysis of data from the government website for fuel prices. fuels.