“Gas, Fuel shortage will end before New Year”

The Government today assured that the prevailing LP Gas and Fuel shortage in the country will end before the upcoming Sinhala and Tamil New Year.

 

Agriculture minister speaking to Journalists in Colombo said the government hopes to end the gas shortage in the country by the end of this month.

 

“At present we are incurring a loss of Rs. 5,000 million from each LP Gas ship. But we are not going to burden the people with this. We will bear the loss and provide gas to the people at a concessionary price. We have ordered enough shipments which will arrive shortly” he said.

 

Meanwhile Minister of Energy Gamini Lokuge stated that the fuel shortage in the country will end well before the Sinhala and Tamil New Year.

 

He said already the CPC has taken steps to send enough fuel stocks to distributing agents.

 

The minister said a decision had been taken to send a diesel bowser and a petrol bowser to all fuel filling stations in Colombo both in the morning and in the afternoon every day. 

 

The minister went on to say that a ship carrying petrol had started unloading on Wednesday and another ship carrying diesel started unloading today.

 

Meanwhile, Minister Aluthgamage said these issues had arisen due to the world economic crisis and they were affecting every country in the world.

 

The minister said it was unfortunate to see some political parties trying to seek petty political mileage out of these issues.