THE French government has created a website that allows you to compare petrol prices between supermarkets.
The prix-carburants site collects data from around 8,000 shops across France, narrowing down your search via communes – unfortunately the popularity of the site means it is struggling to work at the moment.
However, late last night I was able to check it out and the site offers a quick and simple way of seeing the price of standard unleaded and diesel.
The results page displays the name of the supermarkets closest to your chosen town and lists the individual prices per litre.
Although there are a large number of supermarket petrol stations included in the site, around 5,000 have not provided up to date figures and face a fine if they fail to do so.
Hopefully the site will be running smoothly soon and make it easy to compare petrol prices across France.
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7 responses to “Petrol price website”
How about an English translation for those of us that don’t speak or read French.
Hi Paul,
Promise you the site isn’t too difficult.
First pick your fuel type in top left hand corner, Gazole is diesel and SP95 is unleaded.
Then click the departement that you want to find out the prices for, this will then list the petrol stations and from there you can click on the table headings to order the info.
Hope this helps,
Craig
I’ve used site for a while now and you don’t need any French whatsoever.
I’ve just looked at this site for the first time.
No trouble getting on it or working round it.
Hi Haz, glad you were able to get up to speed with the site, hope it helped out.
All the best, Craig
The french have always had much cheaper petrol than Britain,and much cheaper electricity. If they paid what the british pay france would come to a standstill
@ Jane Elizabeth on
“The french have always had much cheaper petrol than Britain,and much cheaper electricity. If they paid what the british pay france would come to a standstill” –
I think the question of earnings must also be considered.