Gasoline shortage in France: 1/5 have no gasoline anymore

Discussion in 'Economics' started by earth_imperator, Oct 9, 2022.

  1. Gasoline shortage in France: 20% of the gasoline stations in country have no gasoline anymore!
    In some cities gasoline is rationed and is sold only to specific job occupation groups like emergency service personal and farmers etc .
    Source (in German): https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/fran...tellen-a-f491d769-4c54-4b84-bd70-e7595515421d
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    Rund ein Fünftel der Tankstellen ist betroffen: In Frankreich gibt es Engpässe bei der Kraftstoffversorgung. Die Regierung bittet um »Ruhe«, mancherorts werden Benzin und Diesel nur an bestimmte Berufsgruppen ausgegeben.
    08.10.2022, 19.39 Uhr
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  2. Businessman

    Businessman

    Strike action. Happens in the UK as well. Run on the petrol stations as soon media starts to even hint at shortages. People start panic filling up tanks when they still over half full just in case. Causes stations to run out of fuel.
     
  3. dekiles

    dekiles

    This is where people's panic plays a big role. Unfortunately, often people really pay too much attention to this, and the result is quite expected.
     
  4. Are you saying there is no shortage, but just a panic buying?
    But the question remains: how come, how did it happen in the first place?... :)
     
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  5. Strike? Hmm. you sure? Link?
     
  6. Another one of those things "conspiracy theorists" said would happen a couple of years ago (food and energy rationing) and here we are......
     
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  7. Sekiyo

    Sekiyo

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  8. @Sekiyo, my French is like my Russian or Chinese: zilch :)
    The previous poster had claimed it's the result of strikes, I then had asked him for a link, and you posted your above reply as a screenshot of a French article etc.
    BUT: is there anything about a strike in this French text?
    If not, then you did not understand the question.

    Update: OK, now I see there are indeed some where strike is mentioned... Will need to read it...
    Ok, then if it's really just the cause of a strike, then it should be easy to solve this French problem: by ending the strike...
    But I think the real reason is that no oil and gas comes from Russia anymore... :)
    That's the result of the EU idiots shooting into their own knees by sanctioning Russian oil & gas... :)
     
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  9. d08

    d08

    That's not a news article. That's a cheap opinion piece.
    You should also try learning the difference between natural gas and gasoline (hint: not the same thing).
     
    #10     Oct 9, 2022
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