Rising fuel prices: French oil depots in Lorient and Brest blocked
The Lorient and Brest oil depot was blocked on March 15, 2022. AFP - FRED TANNEAU
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Transporters, farmers and fishermen block two oil depots in the west of France, in Brest and Lorient, on March 15 to denounce the rise in fuel prices.
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On placards “
too expensive diesel, boat ashore
” or “
too expensive diesel, we have it in the back
”.
In Brest, about 200 people, including a hundred fishermen, blocked the fuel depot.
Forty machines (trucks, tractors) are parked around.
They demand the freezing of taxes by the government and alert the population to their working conditions.
Blocking of the #Brest oil depot by truckers, farmers, fishermen and construction professionals against soaring #fuel prices.
The Lorient oil depot has also been blocked since this morning.
(Maorix Sorare) #petrol #Brittany pic.twitter.com/A2IBMDsYNL
— Anonymous Citizen (@AnonymousCitizen) March 15, 2022
In Lorient, the system is the same.
🔴 Direct: 🔥 (Soaring #fuel prices) The Lorient oil depot in Brittany has been blocked since this morning by carriers, public works, fishermen, farmers... pic.twitter.com/sdoA3fYohK
— Alexandre (@alex_le_bars) March 15, 2022
“
We will stay until the government makes the right decision and freezes taxes.
Because we have fallen below the break-even point, everyone is working at a loss.
If we have to stay ten days, we will stay ten days,
”says Norbert Guillou, president of the Morbihan branch of the National Chamber of Public Works and Landscape Craftsmen (CNATP) to AFP.
A road haulier based in Morbihan fears having to go out of business, as he told AFP.
“
When you have to put 800 euros more diesel per week, inevitably, it stings.
I think that in three months, if measures are not taken quickly, it's over for me who has five vehicles but also for others who have more vehicles
”.
(
with AFP
)
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