Posted on 05/27/2016 8:44:54 AM PDT by Lorianne
An oil strike has forced around a fourth of the country’s stations to close because of lack of gasoline. ___ Some 3,000 gasoline stations in France—around a fourth of the country’s stations—have had to close because an oil strike has shut off their fuel supply, Telesur reports. For the first time in more than five years, France is dipping into its strategic oil reserves, while unions block refineries. Those stations lucky enough to have fuel are under government orders to restrict the sale of diesel or gasoline to around $30 per customer.
Unions are picketing French refineries in protest against a planned labor reform that would extend the workweek and make it easier to lay off workers. The strike has led to some residents “panic”-buying fuel, which in turn has helped to create fuel shortages in many areas of France, including Paris.
Meanwhile, oil workers at the nation’s eight refineries can’t come to an agreement over whether to strike or not, with some facilities still operating as normal, the Associated Press/Ledger-Enquirer reports.
Alain Vidalies, junior minister for transportation, indicated that France has dipped into three days’ worth out of 115 days’ worth of fuel reserves because of gasoline shortages. Vidalies said that around 40% of gasoline stations in and around Paris have experienced full or partial fuel shortages.
Wonder no more!
According to http://www.fuel-prices-europe.info, in France one liter of petrol is €1.359
1 us gal = 3.79 liters, so that's €5.15 per US gallon.
€1 = $1.11 US, so €5.15 = $5.72 per gallon.
$30 will buy you 5.244 US Gallons.
Maybe. But long lines at gas stations happened forty years ago in the U.S.A. under Jimmah Carter, almost worst president ever (after Obama). It was horrible to sit in long lines of cars snaking into gas stations, and seeing fights over gas. We are even more dependent now on gas to conduct business - fewer rail lines and more trucking, less goods made here and mostly made abroad, fewer farms near people, besides personal reasons for folks who commute. Gonna be real bad if it happens again.
France is Going Green! I wonder how the citizens like the new Green Image??
Whew!
The areas considerably north of New Orleans were without electricity and sufficient fuel for the better part of 10 days after Katrina. Gasoline was of short supply far before diesel became an issue. Diesel was seen purchased and loaded in 55 gallon drums filling the cargo space of dually pick-ups for the initial 2 days after the storm until that supply was exhausted.
A person associated with Southern Bell telephone passed along comments about attempted amateur hijackings of fuel shipments to replenish the emergency power generators for the telephone network. The semi-operators reportedly resorted to brute force tactics in some instances, forcing the other vehicles off the pursuit. Escorts were the arranged for subsequent deliveries.
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