2023-09-12 09:11:30
Good news for motorists. The oil group TotalEnergies, which manages a third of the service stations in France, announced this Tuesday that it will extend next year the cap to 1.99 euros per liter on the price of gasoline and diesel in its 3,400 stations . According to TotalEnergies, the capping is activated today in 2,600 of its stations, on SP-95, SP-98 and diesel.
Announced in February 2023, “the cap at 1.99 euros/liter will be extended beyond the end of 2023, as long as prices remain high”, indicated the group in a press release, while the government which brings together the distributors of fuels Tuesday morning called for a “solidarity effort”.
Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher said at the same time on RMC that she was in contact with “Systeme U, Carrefour and other players in mass distribution” and she “believes I know that there will indeed be other announcements” . Intermarché announced that it would sell its fuels at cost price on the last weekend of the month.
“I thank Total and Intermarché for taking their responsibilities, and I expect other fuel suppliers and distributors” to do the same, she added.
Guest on Europe 1, government spokesperson Olivier Véran “welcomes” Total’s announcement. And wants to go further: “There are sectors where we can still scratch on the question of refining, in the fuel production sector. Go to the sub-layers of this sector. »
The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, who had officially asked TotalEnergies to extend its cap on prices at the pump “beyond December 31”, “welcomes” this Tuesday morning on LCI this decision. “We have been talking about it for a week with the president (of the group), Patrick Pouyanné. It is a source of deep anxiety for everyone who works. I hope distributors will join this movement. »
Because fuel prices in France have risen this summer: last week on average, SP95-E10 sold at 1.9359 euros per liter (+0.9 cents compared to the previous week), diesel at 1. 88 euros (+2.3 cents) and the SP-98 at 2 euros (stable). Prices which had not been so high since April for gasoline and February for diesel, according to statistics from the Ministry of Energy Transition.
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