After a slight lull in the wake of the end of rebates, diesel and unleaded prices are now on a continuous upward trend.
The fateful bar of two euros per liter is fast approaching. According to the latest figures from the Ministry of Ecologyas of Friday 27 January, the average price per liter of diesel reached 1.943 euros, an increase of 2.7 cents over one week.
On the unleaded side, the average price per liter reached 1.910 euros, but after a more significant weekly increase of 3.6 cents. The price of a barrel of Brent is also up compared to last week, by 2.3 dollars per barrel, and amounts to 86.2 dollars.
The price of a barrel of Brent slows its rise
As anticipated, the end of government and Total Energies rebates led to an almost automatic rise in prices at the pump in France from 1 January, of more than 13 cents per liter for diesel and nearly 20 cents for diesel. unleaded. This sharp rise gave way to a short fluctuation marked by virtual stability for SP95-E10 and even a slight drop for diesel as a result of the sharp fall in the price of a barrel of Brent (about 3 dollars over one week).
But since the second week of January, fuels seem to have resumed their irresistible rise towards the threshold of 2 euros per litre. A threshold that had already been crossed, and even quite widely, at the very beginning of the conflict in Ukraine. It was this price explosion that had decided the government to set up a rebate on the liter of fuel, the amount of which had varied between April and December, before TotalEnergies added its own at the end of the summer.
A barrel price that climbs gently
From now on, both the price of diesel and that of unleaded seem to grow at a steady and assured rate from one week to the next. The same is true for the price of a barrel of Brent, which did not remain long below the 80 dollar mark, even if its increase slowed between the third and fourth weeks of January.
While the implementation of the embargo on Russian oil weighs on diesel prices, unleaded prices are affected by less fierce competition between the various players in the sector against a background of rising distribution costs in particular, as we explained to you here.
Since Friday, January 27, French motorists have begun to receive the fuel allowance of 100 euros, a device supposed to succeed the rebates.
