French Fuel Disruption to Worsen After Sunday Supply Shortage
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Shortages at French fuel service stations will worsen today after insufficient deliveries yesterday, the refiners’ group Union Francaise des Industries Petrolieres said, as oil industry workers are striking to oppose the government plan to raise the retirement age.
“We didn’t supply much” yesterday “so the situation will be more difficult for everyone,” Jean-Louis Schilansky, head of the UFIP told Agence France-Presse yesterday. “And as we’ve given fuel in priority to highway stations, the rest will suffer a bit more during the day,” he added. Supplies were further reduced because truck drivers transporting fuel in France aren’t allowed to drive on Sundays, Schilansky said.