Supply strikes
If you drive through France, you may find it difficult to get fuel. A major strike in the supply of gas stations leads to rapidly increasing shortages.
In France, strikes at oil refineries and fuel depots of TotalEnergies and Esso-ExxonMobile are causing increasing problems. At noon on Saturday, 20.7 percent of gas stations had problems with the delivery of at least one type of fuel. It was 29.7 percent at the same time on Sunday. It leads here and there to long queues for gas stations, as our own Jan Lemkes (see photo above) experienced last week. Tension in the supply of gas stations is expected to continue, as it was announced on Sunday that some of the strikes are still going on.
The blockades began almost two weeks ago and the stake at TotalEnergies is a 10 percent pay increase from January 1, retroactive to the same date this year. 7 percent is an ‘inflation correction’ and the remaining 3 percent is a ‘wealth division’. The oil and gas company announced a profit of €10.9 billion for the first six months of 2022, with an interim profit distribution of €2.62 billion to its shareholders. Pressured by the shortages of petrol and diesel and their practical and economic consequences, TotalEnergies agreed on Sunday to bring annual wage negotiations forward by one month. As a result, they will take place in October, provided the blockades in oil refineries and fuel depots end.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl