Frustration mounts as French drivers continue to face fuel shortages

Shortages at fuel stations due to a refinery workers’ strike continue to impact drivers across France, resulting in long queues. TotalEnergies, which runs about a third of the country's service stations, has offered to advance pay talks but unions remain firm in their strike action. Plus, former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, has, along with US economists Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, won this year's Nobel Prize for Economics for their work on the role of banks in financial crises. 

Oct 11, 2022 - 12:09
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Frustration mounts as French drivers continue to face fuel shortages
Shortages at fuel stations due to a refinery workers’ strike continue to impact drivers across France, resulting in long queues. TotalEnergies, which runs about a third of the country's service stations, has offered to advance pay talks but unions remain firm in their strike action. Plus, former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, has, along with US economists Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, won this year's Nobel Prize for Economics for their work on the role of banks in financial crises.