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Increase in price of gas

The price of a 12 kilogram Liquigas gas cylinder will be going up to €19.60 as from Monday, the company said.

The cost of a 15 kilogram cylinder will be €24.50, up from €23.10.

Gas prices were last revised in June when the price of a 12 kilogram cylinder had gone down to €18.50 from €19.70.

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Tonio Bugeja

Oct 1st 2012, 07:26

stenna sakemm jinbidel il-gvern u inkunu nafu x hemm mohbi lest ghalina il-maltin. Jien nghid li Malta falluta u kollox qieghed taht it-tapit...... Dan sabu Alfred Sant wara li tela u is-sitwazzjoni hija ferm aghar milli kienet dak inghar.... stennew u taraw! Tal-biza!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eddy Privitera

Sep 30th 2012, 21:26

Roy: Meta l-gvern ipprivatizza l-importazzjoni u d-distribuzzjoni tal-gas, b'hekk fetah dan il-prodott essenzjali ghal-familji KOLLHA, inkluzi dawk foqra, ghal l-ebda kontroll fuq il-prezz, minkejja li taparsi hemm regolatur. U din il-privatizazzjoni sehhet BILFORS ghax Malta qieghda fl-UE. Dan beneficcju iehor milli weghduna bis-shubija fl-UE !!!!!

A Tonna

Sep 30th 2012, 21:57

Fejn joghlew il-prezzijiet il-gvern qatt ma jkollu x'jaqsam ghalikhom, imma meta jorhsu (rarament) kollu fanfarri jkun u tghidx kemm igibu fuq TVM !!

Guido Farrugia

Sep 30th 2012, 22:52

IMMA INT IL QUDDIEM EH!!!! Qiesek l-anglu tal festa, bil musmar wara i tibqa tidhaq.

joseph demicoli

Oct 1st 2012, 02:16

nispera li tibqgha tirraguna hekk meta jitla Joseph Muscat. iz-zmien itina parir lol

David John

Oct 1st 2012, 07:34

Titkellem hekk ghax inti ta' kulur Blu. Li kieku kien hemm il PL fil-gvern kemm kont tirraguna l-istess. Ma tantx nahseb.

Mario Camilleri

Oct 1st 2012, 09:25

@Roy Muscat,

Mhux qed nistennew mirakli meta (mhux jekk) jitla Joseph għaliex Simon diġa tana ħjiel ta' kif inhi l-pożizzjoni finanzjarja tal-pajjiż: - http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120916/local/Busuttil-will-stand-for-election.437047 -

S Vella

Oct 1st 2012, 11:15

Meta Alfred Sant kien jghid li l-gas ser jittripla kont dgiddbuh u tippruvaw tirredikolawh....il-lum ghax iz-zmien tah ragun taraw kif iddawruha fuq Josep Muscat.....min jaf min ghadu lura Roy!!

Chris Coleiro

Sep 30th 2012, 20:37

30 euro per week?? Your gas heater has some serious trouble if a cylinder lasts just 5 days! Either that, or you are referring to heating your internal yard!

P Pace Balzan

Oct 1st 2012, 08:48

@Chris Coleiro
My gas heater is switched on (mainly) during the night and I use app two12Kg cylinders a week.
An aged pensioner would usually remain at home for longer periods of time (ie during the day).
This implies that a pensioner would spend more on heating that a working adult.
Eur30 per week is in my opinion a correct estimate.

J. Zammit

Oct 1st 2012, 11:00

No - Albert's calculations are just about right. One cylinder a week is as easily used up by a gas heater that is turned up to half its heating capacity.

Joseph Sant

Sep 30th 2012, 20:15

We need a system where basic needs such as cooking Gas, electricity, Water and heating is subsidised in a way that those who cannot afford it do not suffer. I do beleive the PL has this plan in place, similar to the Living wage system which may need some tweaking.

Shaun Anthony Camilleri

Sep 30th 2012, 19:43

You can tell when they're Nazjonalisti as when someone complains about a price increase the Nazjonalist brings back a past era. Complaining about a price rise to them is complaining about their perfect political party that never makes mistakes and is clean as a whistle. Come to the present stop harking back to the past which most people of a certain age do not remember nor care about.

anthony dimech

Sep 30th 2012, 18:09

mela bil bulk kollox skadut uchoice wiehed meta il maltin kienu imorru sqallija jixtru il barilla qiesna boloh

Joseph Arpa

Sep 30th 2012, 18:28

@Anthony Dimech
Int biss serjeta???? Mela hekk gejna sew issa...hawn ghazla enormi ta affarijiet imma ma jibqalix flus fil but biss nixtri, u allura nixtri min Llidl jew Carrefore .....u l ghazla enorni noqghod inhares lejha biss!!

gil falzon

Sep 30th 2012, 23:54

I don't get your point. All I said was that in Malta I pay half of what I used to pay in Italy.

Lawrence Fenech

Sep 30th 2012, 16:56

@Paul.

I agree no problem salaries are also going Up Up and Up - in smoke.

C Cassar

Sep 30th 2012, 17:40

Well, all the financial institutions that have rated and tested Malta's economic health completely disagree with you. I know who I would trust and that isn't an uninformed comment by someone on the internet.

A Trapani

Sep 30th 2012, 16:25

.... Maybe we should consider gas hedging if not yet implemented

A Trapani

Sep 30th 2012, 16:24

I hope that they are not fed up as the only alternative there is, is not really proposing anything that makes sense for those that know what sense really is....

Lawrence Fenech

Sep 30th 2012, 16:57

@Joseph.

With Gonzi in your kitchen you will have two empty gas cylinders.

cesco di luigi

Sep 30th 2012, 17:53

In sliema dingli circus area there is no reliable delivery sir, we go out and get it ourself. so check first OK?

A Trapani

Sep 30th 2012, 16:30

Problem is ..... labour wont work so no choice really..... Well done Joseph for what ? For proposing a min wage freeze.... Oh sorry he didn't mention freeze he said no minimum wage increase... Whatever the difference is...

Robert Lewis

Sep 30th 2012, 15:31

What does Gonzi care about this, you forgot that he gave himself and tal klikka a 500 euro weekly increase. Thats what he should have told the people on il FOSOS, and not invent about the minimum wage.

A.f Ellul

Sep 30th 2012, 17:16

Sorry, mistake postage.

A.f Ellul

Sep 30th 2012, 15:07

Go and live in itally,after all their wage is 20 times of mine.thanks for your advice.

Ronnie Callus

Sep 30th 2012, 15:16

How come you compare Italy with Malta when the wages are far much different.

Robert Lewis

Sep 30th 2012, 15:23

I heard someone saying that he saved euro 1.30c because he ran after a bus instead of boarding on it. I told him, next time he should run after a taxi, he would save euro 25. This applies to your arguement.

S. Calleja

Sep 30th 2012, 15:28

20 times? Have you actually ever worked abroad? If you did you would have said twice or thrice. And then again, their income tax can be as high as 45%, plus communal taxes, property taxes and all that. So dream on. Not all that glitters is gold!

E. Vassallo

Sep 30th 2012, 16:12

veybody thinks that wages in Italy are far better than here. What a lot of Labour utopian close minded thinking!!

Ray Buhagiar

Sep 30th 2012, 17:30

I worked in UK, the gas price was alot more expensive than here. And I am ready to compare salaries as well...The British are not getting home more pay than the Maltese. In UK I had to pay council tax, electricity, VAT, national insurance (which was the best in Europe). My take home salary in UK was appox 50Euros more per month than here in Malta. Hence I returned back. At least I work half days and enjoy the sunshine.

gil falzon

Sep 30th 2012, 23:51

Is €800 to €1000 a month a lot? That's what they get there.

Charles Grixti

Sep 30th 2012, 15:11

Prvatization will not stop anytime soon. This is one of the articles of faith of the neo-cons and has been implemented for years all over the globe. In fact, the IMF (a consortium of private bankers) demands that a country privatize its public assets and hand them over to private companies and corporations. What usually follows after a company has been privatized is massive layoffs and downsizing (called restructuring in neo-con lingo). The cost to the public of the product of service given by the newly privatized entities will then climb steadily up (need constant increase in profits you see, otherwise the shareholders will not be satisfied) and attempts to increase profits even further by cutting costs means that cheaper materials need to be sourced and employees downsized further. At the end you are left with a monoploy that provides inadequate service at a higher cost. But that is OK as long as the ' job creators' as the new private owners are then known, are makaing more profits each and every quarter.

S. Calleja

Sep 30th 2012, 15:23

Easy then Charles Grixti. Save a bit, buy some shares and become a shareholder. That way you'll enjoy the company's profit as well.

Charles Grixti

Sep 30th 2012, 18:41

@S. Callelja

Easy you say? Save some money and invest? Not as easy as that,

Most ordinary punters that put their life savings (which they can ill afford to lose), in such investements usually lose them, besides the fact that you need to be already wealthy to be able to buy enough shares, plus insider information that is not available to ordinary mortals, to be able to make money from these investment to make a difference to your economic class.

and

Why should anyone with any decency jump on the bandwagon to impoverish families and whole nations for the sake of greed and more money then they know what to do with. Does not anyone see any conflict here between this and their professed Christian beliefs?

B. Storace

Sep 30th 2012, 14:52

And in the meantime we are chopping down more and more trees to meet the demand for fuel to warm our houses.............well done everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

S. Calleja

Sep 30th 2012, 14:38

Try sushi!

R. Cilia

Sep 30th 2012, 20:04

S.Calleja, do you eat sushi made with raw rice?

Paul Barrett

Sep 30th 2012, 14:20

True, not on gas or fuel, water and electricity but I have had shopkeepers charge me the old price on older stock rather than the higher new price on "just arrived" stock.

effie stafrace

Sep 30th 2012, 14:13

george il unions qedin kwieti ax pupazzi tal partiti.

Nazzareno Cortis

Sep 30th 2012, 15:00

George smith----L-unions qedin kwieti ghax il-haddiem irnexxielhom jaqsmuh f'hafna bicciet ta unions----kollha bi skop li jifirdu lill haddiema------ (IFRED U SALTAN)----hekk gara ---firdu lill haddiema ---u jsaltan min jiggverna!!!!!!!!!
Il-haddiem gie bla sahha---ghax union tordna strajk--u ohra tghid lill membri taghha biex ma jistrajkjawx!!!!!! Il-poplu jidher li hekk kuntent!!!!!---forsi xi darba l-haddiema jindunaw li union wahda u kbira jkollha s-sahha ta vera biex tikkumbatti lill min jahkem fuq il-haddiem!!!!

Charles Grixti

Sep 30th 2012, 15:26

@Nazzareno Cortis

Not only have the Unions been fragmented but I dare say that the Unions have been co-opted from within.

This happened in Malta through the political divide but it could very well be done through dishonest Union leadership that secretly back the employer or government or buying out Union leaders or installing Union leaders that are secretly working hand in hand with the powers that be, creating 'management Unions' that are used to goad their membership to relinquish more and more benefits and to accept lesser wages, as has happened to many of the Unions in Europe or North America. When that fails, government can always legislate against Unions (as is happening to teachers and public employees in Ontario) . Union busting legislation has been used very effectively since Thatcher and Reagan, two icons of neo-conservatism. If all else fails, the police are sent out to bust heads.

Chris Gatt

Sep 30th 2012, 14:30

Please mention one commercial enterprise that takes such a risk. Airlines will add a fuel surcharge at the blink of an eye. Hotels will create some other excuse. So tell me which businesses are you referring to?

Anthony Pace Gouder

Sep 30th 2012, 15:07

IL-BAILOUT kagun tad-dejn u tahwid finanzjarju u ekonomilu li jkun halla warajh Gonzi-pn ?

Anthony Pace Gouder

Sep 30th 2012, 15:13


Hobz biz-ZEJT (taz-zebbuga LI ghadu m'gholiex) u t-TADAM spiccajna !

Paul Zammit

Sep 30th 2012, 13:15

gullible!!!

Hugh Morris

Sep 30th 2012, 13:34

Imla rasek Saliba

F. Azzopardi

Sep 30th 2012, 13:52

L-importanti li dan qed jissodisfak bizejjed!

carlos ellul

Sep 30th 2012, 14:01

Skond l prim l pajjiz sejjer wisq tajjeb biex n nies jaghtu fiducja l pl.

Richard Caruana

Sep 30th 2012, 13:08

Qed tistenna wisq minn JPO habih!!

Pippo De Marco

Sep 30th 2012, 13:17

JPwhO ? - Oh yes, I remember him.

A. Mizzi

Sep 30th 2012, 13:26

FRIZALU ilsienu u FRIZATLU l-memorja KONVENJENTAMENT!

laurent caruana

Sep 30th 2012, 13:28

Mela tista tghidli minn fejn ha jgib il-flus jekk irahhas kollox JM? Wait and see

A Micallef

Sep 30th 2012, 15:19

sur laurent, gonzi min fejn gabhom il flus al progett bla sens tal belt u il bridge li ma jwassal imkien? ghax al progetti bix naqtaw iz zigarelli aw flus, bix itaffi lil poplu ma nsibux Alla jbierek

John L Galea

Oct 1st 2012, 07:34

@ Laurent Calleja: Ghidilna minn fejn se jgib il-flus tas-shopping spree li qed jaghmel GOnziPN. S'issa GOnziPN qatt ma qalilna minn fejn se jgib il-flus ghal kull froga li ghamel.

matteo lamanna

Sep 30th 2012, 13:04

Matteo Lamanna

is this why yesterday there were not so many truck around selling gas cylinders?

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