The group said the increment will swell their cost of operations
The Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Marketing Companies are unhappy with an 18 pesewas increment on every kilogramme of gas, Joy News has reported.
The group said the increment will swell their cost of operations.
According to them, the 18 pesewas increment will force them to pass it to consumers which will also impede penetration access to LPG, from 25% to 50% by 2030.
The association claims the 18 pesewas increment on a kilogramme of gas was not part of the new taxes and levies in the 2021 Budget.
Vice-Chairman of the LPG Marketing Companies Association of Ghana, Gabriel Kumi, said the increment will counter government’s bid to increase LPG penetration in the country.
The LPG Marketers Companies Association of Ghana says the the18-pesewa upward adjustment on a kilogram of LPG by the government will worsen the plight of consumers.
By Lovemore Katanda
Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority ( MERA) has asked Malawian citizenry to embrace the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas( LPG) as alternative source of energy over electricity.
Speaking during one – day media training in Zomba on Saturday April 10,2021, MERA Consumer and Public Relations Manager Fitina Khonje said due to continued high demand for electricity people should embrace the use of gas as alternative source of energy, adding that the development will facilitate the country to reserve electricity for other economic activities.
Khonje adds that Liquefied Petroleum Gas is efficient, fast and cheap, saying it has economic benefits at both household and national level.
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1. FTC abandons challenge to Philadelphia hospital merger.
On March 1, 2021, the FTC, suffering its first loss in a hospital merger challenge since 2016, voted 4-0 to end its effort to stop the proposed $599 million merger of Philadelphia-area health care systems Jefferson Health and Albert Einstein Healthcare Network. The FTC’s decision comes about a month and a half after the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office dropped out of the joint challenge.
The FTC challenged the merger on the basis that it would hurt competition in the Philadelphia-area health care market, and after a defeat at the district court, told the appellate court that the judge had applied “faulty economic reasoning.” The FTC alleged that a combined network would control over 60% of the market for inpatient general acute care services in and around North Philadelphia and at least 45% of the market for those services in and around Montgomery County. The FTC alleged that t
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