“We will be forced not to heat every day”: faced with rising energy prices, the French are worried as winter approaches

“We are not going to turn on the boiler this year because, at the moment, we can no longer buy fuel oil. » Faced with the surge in the price of domestic fuel oil, which has increased by almost 70% since the start of the year, Stéphane Tenot and his wife Stéphanie made this radical decision. A first for this couple in their fifties, who run a saddlery under their 130 square meter house in Louzac-Saint-André, in Charente. While they still have 300 liters of fuel oil in their tank, dating from last year, Stéphane and Stéphanie say they want to test the heating of their two reversible air conditioning units this winter, to complement their auxiliary electric radiators, turned on in the bedrooms when they go to sleep.

“As soon as the fuel oil drops, we will bring in 400 or 500 liters. We are not the only ones, everyone is watching near us,” reports Stéphane. Despite these difficulties, this couple from Charentais does not want to return to wood heating: “The clothes smell of smoke and more...