SP95 was 3 cents down on last weeks price this morning. €1.38 a litre.
I did notice, this morning, in one local fuel station that SP95 was cheaper than diesel
OK, probably in line with UK prices then at present.
Just been reading that uk prices are down due to a drop in the wholesale price. Perhaps the same is happening here.
Probably conducted by GJs at roundabouts and you had to say you supported it to be allowed through the barrier 
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I decided to venture out again today…put my yellow waistcoat on the dashboard this time…pulled over at the glass recycle bin to dispose of my glass…our village doesn’t have one so we have to drive to recycle glass…met an elderly man there…he too must need his vehicle to recycle glass…he too had his yellow waistcoat on his dashboard…as did just about every car and van I passed on the way to super-u…
The roundabout was clear…and clean…no rubbish or debris…the only thing to say there had been a protest there was some writing on the road…looked like it said “Macron decommissione” but I’d drove over it before I could really read the second word…
In super u car park I would say that maybe 75% of cars and vans had the yellow waistcoats on display…
This is definitely regional.
You will be pleased to know that I have conducted my own survey and can tell you with certainty that 
This afternoon on the way into work around 2.30, I counted 3 yellow vests in 30 odd cars - so around 10%.
Stuck in the rush hour traffic of downtown Dax tonight on the bypass, I counted 78 oncoming vehicles and only 3 vests ( presumably because people who have been at work all day and possibly also had issues getting there, have less sympathy for ‘da cause?).
NB. I was sitting in immobile traffic and thus very, very bored. I don’t normally count cars for fun. Honest…
Either which way, it’s a far lower number than in other parts of France but then I guess economically depressed areas are more susceptible ?
“Support for Gilets Jaunes increasing” I don’t agree with that, most people I know think they are a nuisance. Could be confirmation bias, obviously 
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démissionner = resign. It’s one of their slogans.
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Just read that a motorist going through a blockade near Mulhouse gave the protesters some flasks of coffee and soup which they happily drank. It was laced with laxatives which meant several of the gilets jaunes had to leave in a hurry!. Obviously one very pee’d off motorist taking action in the only way he could …
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I love your sense of humour, it comes from a world that I don’t understand.
Police using tear gas and water cannons in Paris against protesters
Looks like the authorities have got tired of waiting for it to fizzle out on its own.
In France, Protests are legal… but the Protest-Organisers need to obtain authorisation…
The P- Organisers were clearly told, yesterday, which areas of Paris would NOT be available to them. They were warned that the Security Police (or whoever) would use whatever force necessary to keep them OUT. The P-Organisers were offered another major site in Paris… but…
Tearing up the cobble stones, shades of the student protests.
I do understand that folk from the countryside and small towns are fed up of being left out of decision making.
Public transport is fine in large cities but we rely on our car, no shops in our commune.
The change in the speed limit affects the time taken on long journeys cross country, not good for safety to have tired drivers on the road.
I was horrified by the riots in London and these latest protests in Paris make me feel very uncomfortable.
It contrasts with the peacefu march through the streets of London in which I took part, the Countryside March of September 2002.
Drove from Cognac back home to Dax last night, had to exit the motorway at J38 southbound A10 as the 38-37 junction was closed, after an hour of back roads I got to J37, had a chat with some protestors who wanted pens and anything I had to burn, pallets were suggested (I was driving a van)!
Got on the motorway, hit 110 kph and got flashed by a fucking speed camera, no idea why, I didn’t see any 90 signs or roadworks.
Annoying!
I got flashed on the Caen périphérique in the 70kmph limit in the roadworks - my speedo said 44mph which I thought was slightly unsporting! (70kmph is 43.5mph)
So far no ticket through yet though I’d be fairly surprised if they would bother at 71kmph.
That said - anybody know if they actually send a fine through for British registered cars. I believe that they can but am not sure if they do.
I’ve only recently discovered that I can change the digital speedo on my car from mph to kph. Obviously not foolproof as I can’t as yet find a way to control my right foot pressure, but it helps…
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