Mélanie Faure with Maud Descamps 9.45am, October 12, 2021
The price of diesel reached unprecedented levels at the beginning of October.
The spectacular increase even exceeds the peak recorded at the time of the "yellow vests", in 2018. The average price at the pump has indeed reached 1.5354 euros on average on October 8, according to data from the Ministry of Ecological transition.
At the gas station, motorists' observation is the same: for weeks, the price of diesel has continued to increase.
To the point of reaching an unmatched level.
In France, a liter of diesel has never been so expensive.
The average price at the pump reached 1.5354 euros on average on October 8, according to data from the Ministry of Ecological Transition published on Monday in a report.
An increase of 28% in twelve months.
Very low prices with the health crisis
"It takes an average of eleven working days to observe 90% of the transmission of cost variation to prices and the total repercussion to fuel prices takes about twenty working days", we can read in the report of the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
Prices depend on a barrel of Brent, the benchmark for the world price of oil.
It has been worth $ 82 since last week, twice as much as the year before.
An increase to be put into perspective: oil prices were very low in 2020, during the health crisis.
>> READ ALSO
- Fuel price: can the symbolic bar of two euros be crossed?
Gasoline nears a new record
SP 95 gasoline comes just behind: the liter was marketed at 1.6073 euros last week, a few cents from also exceeding the record of 1.6664 reached in 2012. A heavy increase for the most modest households, which spend on average 10% of their monthly budget when purchasing fuel.
This increase in prices at the pump comes on top of that in gas and electricity prices for which the government announced a tariff shield 10 days ago.