Published the 05/05/2025 21:56
Updated the 05/05/2025 21:56
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A few days before the second weekend extended in May 2025, prices at the pump continue to be lenient, displaying new declines, especially for diesel. But can it last?
With the May bridges, passages to the pump are more frequent. This Monday, May 5, in a petrol station near Montpellier (Hérault), diesel was under the symbolic bar of 1.50 euros. For her departure on vacation, a driver is delighted by refueling, because the fuel prices continue to fall: diesel has dropped by 19 cents for a year, and the essence of 25 cents.
If the fuel prices have dropped, it is because the price of the barrel of oil has been at its lowest level in four years. He has just passed under 60 dollars. In question, the trade war launched by Donald Trump, but also the decision of OPEC, the organization of oil exporting countries, to triple its production in June, at the risk of plumming its course.
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