Looming LPG crisis

Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jericho Petilla must make a very important decision RIGHT NOW to stop the impending increase in liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) prices.

LPG prices in the global market has been declining because the Northern Hemisphere’s winter season is about to end. (Though this does not seem to be happening if you are in the US right now.). But our domestic LPG prices are almost sure of moving against the international trend if Sec. Petilla does not address (in the words of our columnist Atty. Brigido Dulay in his most recent piece) “the supply chain disruption resulting from the scheduled maintenance shutdown of Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation (Shell)’s oil refinery and the permanent closure of its LPG import terminal, both in Tabangao, Batangas.”