Long queues at the stations still open, sometimes up to the road: drivers hunted fuel Saturday, May 21 in most western cities, while several departments issued orders limiting distribution. These orders are to avoid shortages, due to blockage of refineries by opponents of the labor law. The removal of blockages or occupant evacuation Friday from several major fuel depots and stopped allowing tankers to travel on weekends, however, helped replenish some stations Saturday morning.
According to the Seine-Maritime prefecture, thus noted a significant improvement in supply, with some 200 trucks expected to deposit Grand-Quevilly. But many stations remained dry, as in the English Channel where the prefecture was state of 38 stations in total rupture and 29 partial rupture.
Risk of shortage
And those who were yet supplied were literally under assault in the early hours of Saturday morning with impressive queues and sometimes traffic jams. A Landerneau (Finistère), a supermarket even had to close his service station, because the line of vehicles prevented customers from accessing the store, reported “The Telegram”. In Saint-Brieuc as in Brest, Rennes and Nantes, it was sometimes more than half an hour to an hour, to access the pumps, according to the testimony of motorists. Also queuing in most cities of Cher, yet where all stations were all open and well stocked.
If the exact situation is difficult to change, stocks fluctuating from one station to the another, even from one department to another, the rush to the pumps could boost the risk of fuel shortages, despite the rationing measures Friday in several departments and even force Saturday.
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the Ille-et-Vilaine prefectures, Côtes d’Armor, Finistère, Orne, Loire-? Atlantique, Vendée, Mayenne or Eure and Cher took Friday arrested limited to 20 or 30 liters maximum volume of gasoline for vehicles, and 40 or 150 liters for trucks. Several prefectures have banned the storage in cans, as in Seine-Maritime, Calvados, Nord, Somme and the Pas-de-Calais. Other commandeered some stations for supplying fuel to the emergency services.
Refineries stopped
The recovery operation of fuel depots could however allow rapid improvement of the situation. In the Great West, the forces evacuated Friday night unionists who blocked access for days the three major oil storage facilities in Vern-sur-Seiche (Ille-et-Vilaine), the port Lorient (Morbihan) and terminal Ruby Grand-Quevilly.
on Saturday morning, the access to the third refinery in France, that of Exxon Mobil in Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon (Seine-Maritime) were also released by the CGT and FO union that blocked. But in the North, or three depots were also evacuated Friday four storage centers of Dunkirk and Valenciennes were again blocked or closed Saturday in protest against the labor law. And employees of the Total refinery of Donges (Loire-Atlantique), who voted 55% Friday complete shutdown of the installations, blocked the adjacent deposit with a picket line.
A movement that could amplify
the shutdown of refineries also represents the main risk of shortage for the coming days, knowing that it takes about 3 days to stop the installations and as many or further, to revive. Now, as in Donges, employees of those Gonfreville-Orcher, near Le Havre, and Feyzin, near Lyon, voted Friday shutdown of facilities and began their shutdown.
the leader of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, left Saturday morning hovering threat of a hardening in this sector, “there will be a reaction to the height of what the government did,” he said in a movement in the North, noting that “discussions and general meetings are committed to amplify the movement.”
“There is no shortage. There are specific situations complicated, particularly in the Great West “, however, told AFP Catherine Enck, the communications director of the Ufip.
” But as we got the necessary permissions to circulate during the week- end, we make every effort to remedy the problem, “she added. “There’s the product in France,” she said, stocks are large enough.
The threat of a shortage gave some comic ideas. Thus, a resident of Finistère has posted an ad on the Bon Coin to sell a can of gasoline from 15 liter to 225 euros …
(With AFP)
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