Motorists are looking for petrol stations. Several maps and interactive applications provide real-time availability of petrol and diesel at petrol stations, in each department, municipality by municipality.
Where to refuel? In many municipalities in the south of France, this is the question motorists are asking themselves this Monday morning.
Rows of cars fill the lanes around highway stations, day and night, and in the city center the police are mobilizing to unlock access to still-stocked stations.
Throughout the territory, the closed stations are more and more numerous, and the latest announcements by TotalEnergies or Esso, which this Monday begin discussions with the unions, do not reassure consumers.
Many are those who walk the streets in search of an open station, ready to wait hours for access to the precious fuel.
Several maps are available online, interactive and regularly updated to try to help consumers in their research.
The government has thus put online an interactive map to allow motorists to find the filling stations by type of fuel, in all departments, municipality by municipality.
The penurie.mon-essence.fr site presents a collaborative map of closed or refueled stations, in real time, sharing information from its users.
Here is also the map of the departments where the prefectures have taken measures to address the fuel shortage in service stations. Only one department is interested in the Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur, it is Vaucluse.
Smartphone applications such as Essence & Co, Gasoil Now, Gaspal also offer information on fuel supply and prices at each service station, with regular updates.
Finally, the Waze app informs its users about stations and prices and, above all, makes the status of the traffic around these refueling points coveted by motorists known in real time.
