Lower gas prices announced
Liquigas Malta Limited today announced price reductions of LPG in cylinders
It said this was a direct result of the decreased prices on the international LPG market.
The new prices, shown in the table below, are effective as from next Wednesday.
|
LPG Mix |
Consumers Price including VAT for December 2012 |
Consumers Price including VAT for January 2013 |
|
12 kg Cylinder |
€20.60 |
€19.50 |
|
15 kg Cylinder |
€25.80 |
€24.40 |
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Toni Muscat
Jan 2nd, 20:39
When are the elections ??? Can I expect more of the cost of living to decrease ?
stephen koludrovic
Dec 31st 2012, 21:12
Don't worry folk,.by the time you consume this bottle, and be ready to buy your next one,The price will shoot up again to an even higher level.
Alfred Falzon
Dec 31st 2012, 20:11
@ j brincat
Today, 16:38
Have a closer look at both the PL and PN, analyse their hypocrisy and then draw your own conclusions!
They don't lack YESMEN and just like in Dante's Hell, all their doings or misdoings are paved with good intentions!
We have had enough of overheaing the pot call the kettle black!
Alfred A Falzon
M Saliba
Dec 31st 2012, 18:52
Thank you for reducing the price by €1. The price of a 12kg cylinder in April 2008 was €5.40, now it is €20. !?
C Cassar
Dec 31st 2012, 22:04
Yes and that is a far lower increase compared to those in norther European countries. The Maltese have it very easy in comparison.
M Saliba
Jan 1st, 15:30
@ C. Cassar : In Italy the average wage is €2000 on average, in Malta the average wage is €1200. Therefore before quoting gas prices abroad, one has to quote the average monthly wage.
Pensioners in Malta earning less than €800 per month and who need to heat their homes, will think twice before they use their gas heater this winter.
Peter Murray
Dec 31st 2012, 18:43
And why wont these new prices -or any prices -for LPG ever be shown by any of the distributors-as required by law?Check the MRA website for confirmation of this fact!(it also states that we simply should ask for a receipt of purchase if required.Yeah right- try and get one!)
G Caruana
Dec 31st 2012, 18:17
Nispera dawk kollha li qed jeqirdu (pl) issa ma jpaxxux il gvern u jibdew ihalsu inqas ghal gas.
R. Abela
Dec 31st 2012, 17:57
The big question is "Why most households didn't recieved water & electrical bills for these last 3 and 4 months?
jm busuttil
Dec 31st 2012, 18:45
As they are sent every six months. And your question is??
Schembri Ray
Dec 31st 2012, 20:49
I've received it as always.
Maria Xuereb
Jan 1st, 06:23
I received my last water & electrical bill last April and I live in Gozo. Now a friend of mine was told to go and collect it from the Water Works Office in Victoria as every body is doing this. Is this lack of sending these bill a strategy by someone because election is round the corner?
joseph demicoli
Jan 1st, 06:46
JM i think you are special because the bills are sent every 3 months ,one will be the estimated one and the other will be the actual. Do not mislead people because of your passionate politics.
Andrew Cumbo
Jan 1st, 11:39
@Joe Demicoli you are one, from a hundred. The last bill we received was last September so as per you I am due to receive the bill. But I have my doubts, because I have a bad experience from ARMS ltd. Last March I received 4 bills in a row that where of a big shock. And don't think that these bills where posted, it was when I opened my electronic portal that I knew that I had 4 unpaid bills.
Stephen Mangion
Dec 31st 2012, 17:56
this direct connotation to the international market value is a nasty trick played on the whole local consumer community
Andrew Cumbo
Dec 31st 2012, 17:55
It is good to be at a cheaper price, but it will be much better if the price decreases when gas is used more than usual. Last year I remember the opposite, the price increased when everyone was switching gas heaters.
Karl Consiglio
Dec 31st 2012, 17:23
Better than nothing.
Joseph M. Grech.
Dec 31st 2012, 17:12
Iva ghax jghola nikkummentaw u neqirdu ghax jorhos naghmlu l-istess, tassew m'hawnx stabbilita' ta' xejn.
Igri jitla' Dr Muscat halli l-prezzijiet jaqbdu t-triq tan-nizla u jistabilizza kollox, mohhna jkun mistrieh ghal kollox
manuvri minn taht u minn wara jispiccaw, kollox jibda jdur fuq ir-rubini, il-parlamentari laburisti ma jiehdu zieda qatt,
insomma genna fl-art kulhadd f'daqqa wahda!
Michael Magri
Dec 31st 2012, 17:41
Joseph.. Le mhux ghax kif ghidt int ta.. Heqq jiena ZGUR li qatt mhu se neqred ghax jorhos xi haga KULLTANT..!! Imma meta tiftakar u tqis kif jgholew l-affarijiet matul is-sena, u l-ko-incidenza ta meta jergghu `jorhsu`, bilfors li tibda tghid.."..jahasra kemm ahjar likieku huwwa possibli li jkollna xi 2, jew3 elezzjonijiet kull sena, hux.!!!!!"
Dak Kollox.. Is-Sena t-Tajba Lil-Kulhadd
C. Mifsud
Dec 31st 2012, 17:10
Erm...election in a few weeks' time maybe? How stupid do they thing that the people are? Trying to make us forget four years of increases in prices with reductions for three months. Expect similar 'gifts' in the coming weeks.
M. Bezzina
Dec 31st 2012, 17:09
Smelling election.No water and electricity bill rise and gas is going down......2weeks before election the petrol goes down too.....and you say that this is partisan politics!!!!Anyway Awguri better take it as a joke!!!
Schembri Ray
Dec 31st 2012, 16:59
Hope petrol will be lowered by €1.00
paul falzon
Dec 31st 2012, 16:45
Since most of the comments below are all partisan, I invite you to read this article. We shouldn't be amused nor surprised if the gas prices in 2013 will spike even further.
http://etfdailynews.com/2012/12/17/6-reasons-why-natural-gas-prices-will-rise-25-from-current-levels/
Chris Coleiro
Dec 31st 2012, 17:21
Natural Gas and LPG are two different things, and that reasons in that article apply to the USA.. Have you even read what you posted?
pat muscat
Dec 31st 2012, 16:44
In the US the price of gas has gone down by nearly 50% in a few months.
j brincat
Dec 31st 2012, 16:38
@Alfred Falzon
"Partisan politics have no place for those who realise that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction!
Ad nauseam!""
We all know what Newton's Law says!
BUT what is your point really?
jb
Alfred Falzon
Dec 31st 2012, 16:26
Partisan politics have no place for those who realise that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction!
Ad nauseam!
Alfred A Falzon
James Abela
Dec 31st 2012, 16:18
Can't please some people: they complain when the price goes up and they complain when the price goes down.
Kenneth Williams
Dec 31st 2012, 16:33
Mhux ovvja jekk joghla €10 u jorhos € 1!!! Bhall tal pilloli joghlew € 20 imbaghad hafna pompa ghax jorhsu € 2.02c!!!! Ridiculous!!
L Zammit
Dec 31st 2012, 17:33
Welcome news. Fiz-zmien is-sur Dumink f'daz-zmenijiet kien jordnalna nissikkaw ic-cinturin. Tiftakruha hux din?
Joseph Zahra
Dec 31st 2012, 16:18
Issa jitla Joe, u il-gas gej bi €8 biss. Addio krizi fl-Ewropa.
j brincat
Dec 31st 2012, 16:17
@Joseph Aquilina
"j brincat
We all know what Joseph Muscat will do regarding the € 600 a WEEK ... he would set up a board so that this board will then GIVE HIM the increment HE wants!! Nice!!!I
Fact NOT Fiction!!!
The FACT remains that Toppled GonziPN & Pals REALLY took the € 600 a WEEK and BEHIND Parliament's and the People's back.
AND this is a FACT not mere imagination!
jb
Albert Critien
Dec 31st 2012, 16:01
Once budgets are being mentioned, being an old timer I cannot but recall the little fluctuation in canned tuna and corned beef and the mention of the cake not being yet ready, are any of these complainants really and truly trying to compare times
Charles Zerafa
Dec 31st 2012, 15:56
An €1.10 decrease for a 12 kg gas cylinder is good. But let's not forget that in 4 and half years, the price of a 12 kg gas cylinder went up from €5.40 to €19.50. Suppose we have a competitive market in the gas sector so that there will be competition instead of Enemalta's monopoly. However we never saw a decrease in gas prices when competition was introduced.
Joseph Arpa
Dec 31st 2012, 15:44
wahahhahhaa Oh My God!!!! How stupid do they think we are?
Too little...too late, you can keep it along with the high petrol and €500 a week wage increase.
PN will never get my vote!
paul camilleri
Dec 31st 2012, 15:41
while taking note of a price reduction, why is it that a 12KG cylinder cost less than a 15kg cyclinder , kilo for kilo? although there is just a 0.025c differance it is custom for larger containers to be cheaper than smaller ones. like for instance fresh milk, coca cola and any other product one cares to imagine, surely the international LPG market did not recomend such pricing!!!
Gordon Grech
Dec 31st 2012, 15:39
Gejja l-elezjoni man! Ejja halli ngawdu ftit ghax xotta l-affari. U suppost il-petrol u id-diesel jorhos ukoll. Tghid ha naqta li ha jorhos?
j brincat
Dec 31st 2012, 15:36
@Mr J Xerri
"A well deserved new Year .. will be the first of a series"
Obviously we will have more that this BUT up to March.
If Toppled GonziPN is elected again it will be 'deja' vu'. Dark clouds looming, increase in W & E bills, probably no more tax cuts (promised in 2008) and what have we.
Probably, also, it would be time again for the few to take back the € 600 a WEEK
jb
Joseph Aquilina
Dec 31st 2012, 15:44
@j brincat
We all know what Joseph Muscat will do regarding the € 600 a WEEK ... he would set up a board so that this board will then GIVE HIM the increment HE wants!! Nice!! In other words Joseph is doing what Joseph does best ... playing with words!!
James Abela
Dec 31st 2012, 16:21
€ 600? Is that what Joseph is planning? With the PN it was 500
Paul Giordimaina
Dec 31st 2012, 17:48
What anger jb,I never heard you saying one positive comment and what you want to say by toppled Gonzi PN all you say is negative and sarcastic comments.
j brincat
Dec 31st 2012, 15:29
J@oe Vella
"j. brincat, in all your wisdom, what was the price on the international market in 2008?... AT that price the Sant Government more than trebled the Electricity Tariffs"
AND in your great enlightenment just show me just ONE (not two) W & E bill sent by Dr Sant with such astronomical increases that you state!
Come on, we're waiting BUT you can't!!! Just one!
jb
Reuben Abela
Dec 31st 2012, 15:29
A lot of people seem to forget that an election has nothing to do with the price a private company decides to charge for it's products and services.
What if the price of noodles and pasta had to go down ? Would you attribute it to an election ?
Nazzareno Cortis
Dec 31st 2012, 15:53
yes!!!
Mr J Xerri
Dec 31st 2012, 15:23
A well deserved new Year present, which hopefully will be the first of a series.
j brincat
Dec 31st 2012, 15:20
@Anthony Scicluna
"What were the international prices then?"
And as a Toppled GonziPN fan you invariably adulate and excuse your idol, no?
BUT if Toppled GonziPN really had a social conscience HE would NEVER and NEVER have privitised such an important division of Enemalta as a result of which prices increased more than 3-fold!
Those in need are this winter shivering!
jb
Mr James Galea
Dec 31st 2012, 15:15
hejja good news at last
Nazzareno Cortis
Dec 31st 2012, 15:55
Good news when the price of a gas cylender was 5.40 ewros---!!!!!! Not 19.50 ewros!!!
E Gatt
Dec 31st 2012, 14:59
Those who are moaning and groaning even today on NYE, might care to join the protesters in Jordan.
Click here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20837516
Ramon Saguna
Dec 31st 2012, 14:57
Look at the 2010 prices:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100901/local/liquid-propane-gas-cylinder-prices-up.324908
With increased competition the prices have nearly doubled over 2 years! What sort of competition is that? Never studied this behaviour in economics.
E. Azzopardi
Dec 31st 2012, 14:55
It is always a decrease in price but nothing to boast about considering the hefty price increases we have had since the so called "liberalization" of this important commodity.
And to those who always involve politics: do you really believe that one will be motivated to vote for the present government because of a decrease in one euro and something? Only morons think that way
Joe Vella
Dec 31st 2012, 15:09
E. Azzopardi, and only Morons would also think That Muscat and the PL would reduce prices without rising taxing and/or cutting in other areas such as Helathcare, Education, etc.
Gordon Farrugia
Dec 31st 2012, 15:23
Joe only morons would drown the country in 5,000,000,000 Euros of debt knowing that they will have to pay the fantastic sum of 250 million Euros just to service this debt!!!!!! All utility bills have been grossly inflated because of this huge debt spiral the current administration has created!!
Joseph Aquilina
Dec 31st 2012, 15:47
@Gordon Farrugia
Clearly you lack the minimum understanding of how ALL western economies are managed this day. Money is meant to generate more money! The problem is not the debt, but not being able to pay such debt. Thanks to PN Malta has a strong economy which can handle such a debt ... I do not know what might happen if lejber and Always Wrong Joseph gets to power!!
stephen koludrovic
Dec 31st 2012, 16:01
@ Gordon Farrugia,
I tend to agree with you that all the prices have been grossly inflated.
M. Bezzina
Dec 31st 2012, 17:12
Dear Joe vella
that is your opinion. JM already told you how the W&E bills are to go down.The money spent in consultations by hon.Austin Gatt will be allocated to make the reduction!!!
Joe Bonanno
Dec 31st 2012, 22:40
Re Joseph Aquilina
May I recommend reading Economics 101.
Perhaps then you'll be able to come out of your self imposed cocoon. The PN CANNOT pay off the debt. They even have to borrow to pay the interest on the debt. Try and face the fact that the PN is bankrupting Malta. But, alas, like all good Nationalists, what the PN bosses say is always right and must be repeated.
Aristide Galea
Dec 31st 2012, 14:54
Election is getting near and together everything is possible especially if you have the power of incumbency . History repeat itself . How much more of these things will happen in the next 3 months ?
Giov DeMartino
Dec 31st 2012, 15:28
Maybe employment for some 8000 persons may be created.
Aristide Galea
Jan 1st, 17:53
Mr. Demartino , are they going to be employed at Smart City Malta ?
Thomas Mifsud
Dec 31st 2012, 14:50
Hope it will keep going down until it reach the realistic price. Not long ago 12kg cylinder was 5Euros. In a few months time it is 4 times as much.
Martin Abela
Dec 31st 2012, 14:45
Now certain known characters will say that the price was reduced because of the general election....... u halluna.
Noel Hili
Dec 31st 2012, 14:53
So let's say the price was reduced by coincidence.... The price of the same quantity of GAS abroad (delivered through the GAS Network) are very much cheaper in countries where the payroll costs are higher.
Mr. M. Camilleri
Dec 31st 2012, 15:04
Since you mentioned it . . . . you thought about it too!! :))
Happy new year to all!
R. Azzopardi
Dec 31st 2012, 15:04
@Noel Hili,
Do you have the foggiest idea how much it costs to heat a home in central Europe? This year I only turned on a gas heater for a couple of nights. My friends in Switzerland have had to turn their central heating on full blast for the past 8 weeks. No matter how hefty their payroll is, it still costs a bomb.
Joe Vella
Dec 31st 2012, 15:13
@ Noel Cini, prosit ghalik. Why don't you compare apples with apples. Why don't you tell us how much people are charged in various European Countries where gas is purchased in Cylinders.
Dennis Zammit
Dec 31st 2012, 14:43
Good news for consumers.
Alfred Grech
Dec 31st 2012, 14:41
We will say thank you when you lower it more. Lots of legal cheating went on.
effie stafrace
Dec 31st 2012, 14:40
hahahaha its election time.
Jay Aquilina
Dec 31st 2012, 14:38
kumbinazzjoni issa naqas il gas , halluna b din tahsbu li se tghaddu z zmien???? forsi tfal taht l haxar snin jemnukhom imma mhux l adulti.
Claire Busuttil
Dec 31st 2012, 14:37
dejjem ahjar mix xejn.....pero xorta il gas ghola wisq fi ftit snien....meta qabel dahlet il euro kien Lm2.25....
Hemm bzonn li jorhos aktar
R. Azzopardi
Dec 31st 2012, 15:05
Kollha kemm ahna nixtiequ hekk Claire. Pero jekk tittawwal naqra fuq l-internet u tara naqra kemm gholew il-prezzijiet tal-gass u z-zejt mill-2004 li l'hawn, wahdek tinduna li ghola b'mod fahxi.
Vincent Cassar
Dec 31st 2012, 15:40
Sur Azzopardi, xi hadd bravu kien qal illi l-prezzijiet taghna ghandhom jirriflettu is-swieq internazzjonali. Kollox sew s'hemm...imma b'din il-logika il-prezz tas-swieq internazzjonali jitla U JINZEL...imma f'Malta jibqa' dejjem tiela'...anki meta il-prezzijiet jinzlu. Apparti minn dan kollu kien hemm hafna bravi illi ikkritikaw il-hedging meta il-prezzijiet kienu baxxi!
Anthony Paul Naudi
Dec 31st 2012, 14:37
Ahjar mix-xejn
Is-sena t-tajba lil kulhadd
A.P.Naudi
j brincat
Dec 31st 2012, 14:37
Whoopeeee!!!!
But?
What was the price in 2008?
Ooopps
jb
Anthony Scicluna
Dec 31st 2012, 15:01
What were the international prices then? They were significantly lower but as a Labourite you forget this. What was the price during Alfred Sant's reign of economic boom? You also forget that gas prices were increased by labour even though international prices were low. Hallina grid
Joe Vella
Dec 31st 2012, 15:17
j. brincat, in all your wisdom, what was the price on the international market in 2008? We all know that the price of oil on the international market was $12.00 per barrel. AT that price the Sant Government more than trebled the Electricity Tariffs. No need to tell me that the above article deals with heating and cooking gas. I know the difference.
RONALD ARRY
Dec 31st 2012, 14:36
election is on the way
Noel Hili
Dec 31st 2012, 14:36
Hahaha, a small sweetener for New Year's eve. From past experience, this reduction will be reversed come next month, or shall I say till next March??
Mr C Galea
Dec 31st 2012, 14:35
but of course an election is looming or more precise definate.
brian compton
Dec 31st 2012, 14:31
really this i what they are going for what was the price before the budget 19.60 i think !!!!! so now they put it back to the price before talk about trying to pull the wool .......
Vincent Cassar
Dec 31st 2012, 14:31
I thought that with a liberalized market it would go down back to 5E...another gimmick! PLEASE STOP OFFENDING PEOPLE'S INTELLIGENCE! Happy new year....
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