The oil group TotalEnergies, which manages a third of service stations in France, announced Tuesday September 12 that it will extend into 2024 the cap of 1.99 euros per liter on the price of gasoline and diesel in its 3,400 stations. , “as long as prices remain high”. According to TotalEnergies, the capping, announced in February 2023, is activated today in 2,600 of its stations, on SP-95, SP-98 and diesel.
This announcement comes as the government, which brings together fuel distributors on Tuesday morning, requested a “solidarity effort”. The Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, said at the same time on RMC that she was in contact with “Systeme U, Carrefour and other major retail players” And “believe[t] know that there will indeed be other announcements”.
“I thank Total and Intermarché [qui a annoncé vendre ses carburants à prix coûtant le dernier week-end du mois] to take their responsibilities, and I expect other fuel suppliers and distributors” let them do the same, she added.
Fuel prices in France have risen this summer: last week on average, SP95-E10 sold at 1.935 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 .