News that should not delight the French. While prices at gas stations fell last year, 2025 could see a resumption of fuel price increases. Indeed, at the start of the year, prices at the pump have exceeded €1.74/L for SP95-E10 and are around €1.67/L for diesel, according to the Ministry of Transition. ecological, reported by Thanks for the info.
A situation which could continue given the geopolitical context. This Friday, January 10, the US Treasury said it had sanctions against two Russian oil companies and 200 tankers and LNG tankers operating from Russia. The aim is to impact “a key source of revenue from Russia’s brutal and illegal war in Ukraine”, causing a significant increase in oil prices on the same day. The price of a barrel of Brent has even exceeded $80, according to La Tribune. Its American equivalent, a barrel of West Texas Intermediate, also increased by 2.09% to $75.85.
As a reminder, the price of fuel had fallen sharply between May and October 2024. It had even returned to the level observed before the war in Ukraine in September, reaching 1.6 euros per liter of gasoline and 1.5 euros for liter of diesel. But for several months, the trend had been reversed: with prices reaching 1.61 €/L for diesel and 1.71 €/L for gasoline, the month of October already foreshadowed a new (.. .)
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