The fuel prices vehicles sold in service stations in France continued to increase last week, by more than half a cent per liter, according to official figures released Monday, December 7.
The price of diesel has increased further
Diesel, the best-selling fuel in the country, was worth 1.2465 euros per liter on average on Friday, up 0.82 cents compared to the previous week, according to data from the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
The unleaded super 95 sold for 1.3455 euros, up 0.67 cents over one week.
SP95-E10, which contains up to 10% ethanol, rose 0.63 cents to 1.3290 euro.
Finally, the SP98 was sold for 1.4082 euros, showing an increase of 0.61 centime.
Highest since the end of July
For all these types of fuels, which are up for four consecutive weeks, we must go back to July 24 to find higher prices.
Fuel prices at the pump vary depending on several parameters such as the price of a barrel of oil, the euro-dollar exchange rate, the level of stocks of petroleum products and demand, as well as taxes.
After a drop following the Covid-19 pandemic, oil prices have stabilized at modest levels.
They have been pulled lately by announcements about vaccines against Covid-19. The agreement reached last week by the main producing countries on a gradual increase in their production of black gold from January resulted in an increase at the end of the week.
Friday, December 4, a barrel of Brent crude from the North Sea for delivery in February had approached the symbolic bar of 50 dollars per barrel (at 49.92 dollars), more crossed since March 6.
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