Fuel prices were to suffer a significant decline on Monday March 14: around 30 cents for diesel and around ten cents for unleaded. Have resorts really lowered their prices?
It was a crazy week. Petrol prices topped €2 per liter last week. Diesel increased by 25.8 cents in seven days, even becoming more expensive than unleaded 95 E10, which increased by 15.8 cents. Friday, the promise of the CEO of Leclerc filled motorists with hope: Michel-Edouard Leclerc announced for Monday, March 14 a decline in diesel by 35 cents and unleaded 95 by 8 to 10 cents.
The prices have indeed come down. “I confirm the reflux, of the order of 30 cents on diesel and around ten cents on unleaded”, indicates to the Parisian Francis Pousse, president of fuel distributors (excluding supermarkets) at Mobilians, the automobile services union. “The distributors passed on the drop very quickly, whereas this was not at all the case in hypermarkets and supermarkets”. However, mass distribution represents 63% of fuel sales in France.
To check whether the service stations applied the reduction, we compared the prices of diesel and unleaded 95 E10 on the government website prix-carburant.gouv.fr, on which the stations declare their prices. We raised prices on Monday evening for rates updated to March 14. Note that prices will change during the day on Tuesday.
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Here is the situation department by department.
Ariege
Prices are down. Several large retailers still sell diesel between €2.20 and €2.30 per litre. Only Leclerc in Foix and Intermarché Pamiers have prices below €2.
Aude
Diesel remained at high prices in some of the stations, but prices were down. Unleaded 95 E10 and diesel are less than €2 at Esso Express and Total Access in Carcassonne; Esso Express in Narbonne; Intermarché Narbonne; Total Access in Lézignan-Corbière; Leclerc Salles d’Aude (A9 motorway) and Dyneff in Axat.
Aveyron
The fall in prices seems well applied in the department. Gasoil and unleaded 95 E10 are sold at less than €2 per litre. On Monday, the two fuels were sold for under €2 per liter at Esso Express in Decazeville; Leclerc in Onet-le-Château; Super U in Onet-le-Château; Intermarché in Rodez, Bozouls, Saint-Geniez-d’Olt and Viviez; Carrefour market in Luc-la-Primaube; Super U in Olemps; Total Saint-Affrique.
Upper Garonne
Some of the service stations remain at a price above €2 per litre. Nevertheless, diesel and unleaded 95 E10 were sold for less than €2 at: Carrefour Labège, Portet and Purpan; Esso Express and Total Access Aucamville; Total Access in Toulouse (bd de Suisse, route d’Espagne, route de Saint-Simon, avenue des Etats-Unis), Blagnac, Saint-Orens, Saint-Alban, Saint-Gaudens and Villeneuve-Tolosane; Esso Express in Portet, Toulouse (route de Narbonne) and Villefranche; Intermarché and Total Access Balma; Total Access Colomiers and Portet; Intermarché in Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, Ramonville, Cornebarrieu, Montgiscard, Pinsaguel, Pompertuzat, Venerque, Fonsorbes, Castelnau-d’Estretefonds and Merville, Villefranche; Carrefour market Auterive and Cugnaux; Super U Fonbeauzard. On the motorway, prices were less than €2 at Total Port-Lauragais Sud and Dyneff Toulouse Sud (A61 motorway).
Gers
Refueling is a little cheaper in the Gers. Several stations went below €2 per liter for diesel and unleaded 95 E10 from Monday: Total in Condom and Intermarché in Saint-Clar.
Lot
To pay for diesel and unleaded 95 E10 for less than €2, go to Intermarché in Gourdon; Leclerc and Carrefour contact in Gramat. Few stations had updated their prices on the government site on Monday evening.
Lot et Garonne
Prices at the pump are down in the department. As of Monday, fuel was less than €2 at Intermarché in Agen, Casteljaloux and Colayrac-Saint-Cirq; Total Access in Boé, Le Passage and Tonneins; Total Marmande; U Express to Brax.
Hautes-Pyrenees
Diesel fuel and unleaded 95 E10 went back below €2 at Total Access in Tarbes, Lourdes and Argelès-Gazost; Total in Bazet and Sarrancolin; Esso Express Lourdes; Carrefour market Lannemezan.
Tarn
A liter of gasoline sells for less than €2 at Esso Express in Castres; Total Express in Saix; Total in Lisle-sur-Tarn and Réalmont.
Tarn et Garonne
Few stations had updated their prices Monday evening. Diesel and unleaded 95 were sold for less than €2 at Leclerc Aussonne; Intermarché in Moissac, Montech and Valence-d’Agen; Total Access in Montauban; Total in Realville.
If your service station is not on the list, this means that on Monday evening it was not selling diesel and unleaded 95 E10 at less than €2 per liter or that it had not updated its rates on the government website. It should be noted once again that since the statements of these rates, the rates may have changed on Tuesday.
On Monday, in a highly volatile market, a barrel fell 5.12% to $106.90. The drop in prices at the pump should continue. For the rest, everything depends on the evolution of the international situation.
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