Jean-Luc Boujon, edited by Laura Laplaud 1:52 p.m., March 09, 2022

Fuel prices keep rising.

In a service station in Louhans, in Saône-et-Loire, a liter of diesel was sold at 2.21 euros per liter on Wednesday.

A price that terrifies some motorists but which is explained by the evolution of the price of a barrel of Brent which is close to 140 dollars.

If the price of diesel has fallen slightly in the morning, minus three cents, it is still displayed at 2.21 euros per liter in Louhans, in Saône-et-Loire, in the service station of a Leclerc supermarket .

Gasoline at an incredible price in a small town, and even one of the most expensive in the department.

Consequence: there is no crowd this morning at the pump of this supermarket.

Customers who come to fill up with diesel are rare and when they are present, they are far from happy.

"It's really too expensive," says one of them.

"We will stop driving at this price, it's not normal," said another. 

"We deal with it"

"We drive less, we pay more attention but to go to work, we have to", explains a motorist.

"I put two to three times a week. So the budget is not bad for gasoline. In addition, Leclerc's slogan is 'which is the cheapest', so listen, we do with it", blows a client.

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Obviously, in this service station, everyone understands the cause of this increase.

This conflict in Ukraine, which is causing the price of a barrel of oil to soar, is also a cycle, explains the manager of this Leclerc store, who recognizes that he is obliged to pass on the increases.

But for some clients like Marie this is not normal.

"It's not good to do it like that, the state takes all the money," she berates.

A situation reminiscent of the beginning of the yellow vests since the price of fuel had been the trigger for this social movement.

"Never seen"

As the presidential campaign takes off, this is an aspect that could change the electoral time.

We can imagine that Emmanuel Macron and the other candidates are watching this closely. 

For his part, Olivier Gantois, president of the French Union of Petroleum Industries (UFIP), judges that it is "an oil shock as we have not known until now".

"I had experienced the Gulf Wars, the attack on the Twin Towers in the United States, it was not such a shock as today," he exclaims.

"We started the year 2022 with a barrel price of 77 dollars. Today we are at 140 dollars, that is to say that in two months, the price has almost doubled. It's never seen! Hence also our difficulty in projecting ourselves into the future, "he said.