In France, fuel crisis frays nerves and workers’ resilience
Associated PressVERSAILLES, France — Even close to midnight on a school night, the tipoff was too important to ignore: A nearby gas station had just been resupplied. More than a quarter of gas stations nationwide were still without one type of fuel or more on Saturday, the French energy minister said. In the town of Versailles, southwest of Paris, 41-year-old nurse Aurelie Martin is trying to eke out the precious fuel left in her tank — and bracing for the next time she’ll have to visit the pumps. “I had hoped up to now that the situation would improve, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be getting better.” The strikes have hit French refineries and fuel depots. Strikers have demanded higher wages from what they feel should be their share of windfall profits generated by high oil and gas prices amid the global energy crisis aggravated by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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