Petrol prices in France...

I've just heard on the news tonight, that petrol stations are going to
be obliged to display their petrol prices on a nationwide government

Nice, but it's not a governmental site, is it? Over here, stations can

And you have to join to actually get any useful info, too.

Yes, but it's free.

OK - but I registered some time ago with a specific-to-them email
addy, and I've had, oh, let me count them - 3 emails since then to
that addy, all from that site, reminding me that I have a login ID.

be fined if they don't provide prices and if they're not correct
prices. Apparently.

d'base.

Next step: A database for French petrol stations' open and closed
periods and whether they accept British credit cards or not.

There's always one, isn't there? :-)

Apparently it's at :

sigh. Bad form, etc, but the site is actually:

on the news).

Needless to say both sites are either down or pig slow as everyone in
France are accessing the sites at the moment. However it's supposed to
be easy to navigate and figure out the cheapest prices. The idea is to
increase petrol station competition (As the French government can't
influence world prices and don't want to lower petrol taxes).

As an aside, whilst searching for the sites, I came across a similar
site in Belgium (which may be a public (i.e. non-government site).

Have fun.