The prevailing number of French citizens decided not to rely on expensive electricity this winter and stocked up on firewood. This is reported by France 2 TV channel.
A France 2 correspondent said that the price of wood is also starting to rise, but this does not even embarrass the French. According to the TV channel, the purchase of wood, according to monetary calculations, looks much more favourable – three times more favourable than expensive electricity.
In France, amid high energy prices, firewood has become such an attractive commodity that it is sold in shops on a par with tools. Private suppliers say they are no longer accepting new orders for wood to supply their regular customers who ordered back in July.
Most French people who had a fireplace as a decorative element have rethought its function. Now they buy their real analogues to provide the house with heat.
We will remind, earlier the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin criticised the attempts of the European Union countries to completely abandon Russian energy carriers, while the entire Western economy is at “zero mark”.