Solid efforts afoot to open LPG auto gas stations

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Distributors Association Irfan Khokhar has said efforts are underway to open LPG auto gas stations countrywide in order to provide cheaper and environment friendly fuel to consumers.

Talking to APP, he said initiative would be encouraged at official level, the government could not afford to supply gas to the CNG sector which had no future in a country where domestic consumers were sufferring and power shortage was hitting the masses hard.

"We have high hopes from government to take effective steps for provision of relief to common people by promoting the LPG as alternate fuel and encouraging to open filling stations, across the country," he observed.

He said the LPG association would be fully co-operating with the government by providing workable proposals to it for resolving issues for promotion of LPG to extend relief to consumers who were already faced with high prices of daily-use commodities.

However, called upon the government to take notice of frequent raises in prices of the commodity to extend relief to consumers who were already overburdened with the crippling inflation.

He said the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) should also play its role by taking action against the unethical forces in the LPG sector, that were extracting money through unjustified raises.

He appreciated the government for issuing orders to the LPG not to increase price of the commodity and maintain at Rs 10,3500 per metric, putting an end to speculation regarding big rise in prices of the fuel.

He said it was a welcome decision, putting an end to speculation that local producers would raise the price by Rs 46 per kg with domestic cylinder by Rs 541 and commercial cylinder by Rs 2082.

He also appreciated role of the media saying it played effective role in highlighting illegal move on the part of the unscrupulous business forces in LPG market.

He said the association had written a litter to the Prime Minister with the request to cap November, 2013 Producer Price for next three months in order to make poor consumer buy LPG at reasonable price.