Carole Ferry, edited by Solène Delinger 7:09 p.m., January 11, 2022
If you feel like you're paying more for your gas tank right now, it's not just feeling.
According to the Ministry of Energy Transition, the liter of unleaded last week reached 1.68 euros and the liter of diesel, 1.59 euros.
An increase of five cents compared to the end of December.
How to explain this increase?
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Bad news for all French motorists.
Fuel prices reached new highs in early 2022. According to the Ministry of Ecological Transition, the liter of diesel reached, at the beginning of January, nearly 1.59 euros, up five cents compared to the end of December.
How to explain this meteoric rise?
Resumption of economic activity
We have never paid so much for our gasoline.
According to the latest data published by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, fuel prices rose again at the start of 2022. A year ago, the liter of unleaded 95 was posted at 1.41 euros on average.
A full 60 liters therefore costs 17 euros more today.
How to explain this increase?
At first, OPEC, the World Organization of Petroleum Producing Countries, decided to reduce its production.
And then, this increase in prices at the pump is also explained by the resumption of economic activity, which cannot be denied, in concrete terms to what some feared.
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Libya and Kazakhstan tightened the markets
"It would seem that there is no risk of generalized confinement at the global level", underlines at the microphone of Europe 1 Olivier Gantois, president of the UFIP, the French Union of the petroleum industries, before putting forward a another explanation: "Secondly, there were some tensions in Libya and Kazakhstan. These two countries therefore tightened the markets a little, which caused this new increase".
In the fall, the government responded to the surge in prices with the inflation check of 100 euros.
For the moment, no new boost expected, while Bercy is already trying to curb the rise in electricity prices.