Due to rising Liquefied Petroleum Gas costs, many Ghanaians are finding it difficult to pay the expense of refueling their gas cylinders (LPG).
The extremely high cost of fuel, such as LPG, has hampering their efforts to reduce feeding costs by producing their own meals.
Many people claim their problems have been exacerbated since they struggle to fill their cylinders for domestic cooking at a time when restaurant meal prices are skyrocketing.
Deborah, an Alajo resident, went to the petrol station two weeks ago to buy GH90 worth of gas.
She could fill a 14.5kg gas cylinder for GH180, but she could only afford half of that. Deborah returned to the filling station since her LPG had run out, but she could only afford GH50 out of the GH180 required to completely fill her cylinder this time.
"I have to spend GH180 to get my cylinder filled; even the smallest size costs around GH80." It wasn't always like this; it isn't easy at all. I'd like to completely fill my cylinder, but I don't have the funds.
"We paid GH250 for the one we used at work, and it lasted a week." "If I didn't have any money, I'd go with charcoal," she remarked in a JoyNews Living Standard Series interview on Wednesday.
The price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) has become uncomfortably expensive and irregular for her and others who have come to re-fill their cylinders.
LPG prices have risen by at least three times in the last month.
Trinity Gas supervisor Sylvarius Akentuna is frustrated.
"To fill a 14.5kg cylinder, someone would simply come to buy GH50 of gas." How, exactly? It's because the price has risen and is no longer stable. For example, the 14.5kg was approximately GH148 last month, but it has since risen to GH152.
A gas cylinder may be refilled for around GH7.91 per kilogramme as of October 2021. This indicates that refilling a 14.5kg cylinder might cost a little more than GH114.
However, the price per kilogramme increased by more than 23% in March of this year.
Consumers paid around GH142 for the same cylinder size, with more price changes last month exacerbating the problem.
LPG consumers bemoan price hikes in the Living Standard Series.
Maxwell, a pump attendant, described why operations switched from the scale to the pump system.
"When we were using the scale method, the prices were set in stone; they couldn't be changed." However, we had to use the pump method so that people who couldn't afford the increase could still buy.
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