French Fuel Strike

There is a fuel strike on at present throughout France. It is caused by workers at two or three refineries resulting in there has been a significant reduction in deliveries. Apparently there are virtually no delivers to Total who operate about a third of all fuel stations in France. Deliveries to Exxon/Esso are also affected.

This has resulted in most of Total and Esso stations being out of fuel due to no deliveries and shortages at other stations due to demand. I guess that around half of all stations have no fuel, this is based on travelling 400+ miles in France Sunday and today from Basel to Dreux non motorway

There were queues today at any station with fuel and queues were maybe 0.5km long at some stations on the outskirts of Paris.

Diesel has also gone up, typically now in the €1.90s with some places over €2.00.

Having said all of the above fuel is available, it’s just inconvenient to get it

Got diesel again this morning but limited to 30litre, happy with this as I have enough now to get to Cherbourg

I got caught up years ago when the lorry drivers were striking in France and fuel was short. The drivers were very friendly when waving us through their roadblocks. It took me a while to realise they were parking the trailers in front of the direction signs and only giving you one route to go. Figured it out when I passed the same 'friendly ' drivers a couple of times.