The Issy-les-Moulineaux gas station is one of the few still open in the west of Paris. Many cars wait their turn, quietly. Cerkan, 38, is a VTC driver. He stumbled upon the station by chance. “I didn’t even have to wait in linehe says, smiling. Finally, “Luckily“… He admits to having a few little techniques all the same: “We have a Telegram group with the other VTCs, as soon as we see an open gas station with not too many queues, we tell the others“, he explains to us.
Last Friday, he had not been so lucky. “I had to travel 100 kilometers to find gasoline, a two-hour trip there and back“. He is annoyed. “We had the “yellow vests”, we had the Covid. If the government continues like this, I tell you, it will blow up. The French will crack“, he warns.
Behind him, Maurice, a taxi driver, patiently waits his turn:I got no choice, if I got no gas, I got no job“. “Luckily the kids are grown up and we don’t have to take them to school.“, he breathes.
From our special correspondent in the Paris region,Jeanne Senechal.
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