A service station , or essencery , is an infrastructure positioned on the edge of a Route or a Autoroute intended to provide Carburant to the motorists. The word service station is in the beginning a Anglicisme.

The service station the most equipped offer services necessary to the motor vehicles: pumps with Fuel, shop of additional automobile, station of pneumatic, small Inflation of the Mechanical and Breakdown service.

In France, on the highways, the service stations offer in addition to the rest and parking spaces to slacken, and comprise a shop supplied in food and products of comfort for the road. However, these tariffs are raised because of the permanent opening, of a highway royalty, as of the situation of quasi-monopoly from which profit the service station. These service stations have also an obligation to have fuel: this constraint increases also the prices.

In 2006, the fuels available in France are primarily: the super Without-lead, the diesel , and LPG. The regular gas disappeared in the years 1991-1992 and high-grade petrol (with lead) with the beginning of the year 2000.

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