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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology French petrol pumps run dry in refinery strike AFP - Tuesday, February 23 Send IM Story Print Workers gather after a general assembly at the French oil giant Total refinery in Donges. French filling stations started to run dry as striking refinery workers sought to choke off the fuel supply to force oil giant Total to guarantee their jobs. PARIS (AFP) - – French filling stations started to run dry on Monday as striking refinery workers sought to choke off the fuel supply to force oil giant Total to guarantee their jobs. With families hitting the road for the school half-term holiday, unions warned petrol could run short within days due to strikes at Total's six refineries, which the firm says supply about half of France's fuel depots. In the western town of Rennes, AFP reporters saw some filling stations closed and cars queuing at others. Stations were also shut in the southern city of Toulouse and others were crowded in towns such as Brest and Nantes. Total said 132 out of its 2,000 Elf service stations were short of fuel and it was taking measures to "limit the risk of shortages." The government moved to calm fears of shortages, but unions cranked up threats that their open-ended action, now in its sixth day, could halt supply. "I call on all consumers to create a shortage, to go and fill up their tanks, in order to stop the strike lasting too long," a local leader of the CGT union, Marcel Croquefer, told striking refinery workers in Dunkirk. "Shortages are what make the decision-makers afraid." On Friday, Total's management began to halt refining due to the stoppage, launched in protest at the mothballing of the Dunkirk refinery, which employs 370 people directly and 450 sub-contractors. The strike at Total, ranked as the sixth biggest oil company in the world by sales, helped drive oil prices above 80 dollars a barrel in New York trading on Monday, analysts said. Dunkirk has been on strike for six weeks and Total's other five refineries were also expected to wind down one by one over the coming days. "We have already caused a shortage of diesel, and the filling station opposite the refinery has run out of diesel," said Franck Manchon, a CGT representative at the Grandpuits refinery near Paris. The CGT has also called for a strike on Tuesday at the two refineries in France run by ExxonMobil, the biggest US oil company, over fears for the refinery sector. After the strike sparked a weekend run on the pumps, the French Petroleum Industry Union estimated on Monday that France's depots had only seven to 10 days' worth of stocks left, its president Jean-Louis Schilansky told AFP. Industry Minister Christian Estrosi said in a radio interview Monday that "the government will take measures so that France will not get stuck" without petrol. Under pressure from the government to safeguard jobs, Total has insisted it will not close the Dunkirk plant permanently, nor any other refineries, nor cut any posts. But it has not promised to maintain Dunkirk's refining activity, setting the stage for tough negotiations on the restructuring of jobs at the site. Christian Votte, who represents refinery workers for the CGT, said he would not approve a scheduled works committee meeting with management on the issue until the company committed to maintaining refining activities at Dunkirk. Total says it must adapt to falling demand due to the economic crisis and a shift towards cleaner energy. It posted a 44-percent year-on-year drop in profits in 2009 due to falling prices, but has vowed to keep investing, eyeing partnerships with China and gas projects in Iran. 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