SMS: LPG scarcity

Tue, 09/09/2008 10:14 AM  |  Reader's Forum

Your comments on the scarcity of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) following the announcement of a price increase by state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina

The lack of LPG, the blue energy hoax and the HL2 supertoy obviously show us that we are managed by the wrong hands.
A.B. HARIANTO
Bandar Lampung

It is obvious. It is to do with supply and demand. It makes you want it more and you have to pay their prices.
SENSIBLE
Jakarta

The price increase is responsible for the LPG shortage. Pertamina wants to increase the price but the timing is wrong because the people are still suffering from the recent oil price increases.

Fortunately, this time, President SBY has denied the increase and therefore Pertamina should learn about the impact of the oil prices and that it has to supply more LPG, especially during the fasting month. Good job SBY!
DULI MUHLIS MUNAWAR
Depok, West Java

The LPG shortage is an example of the current government's bad record. Many public policies do not benefit the public. The government has failed to allow its citizens to live in prosperity.

Almost all of the policies only benefit policy makers. A few months ago the government persuaded its citizens to switch from kerosene to LPG by distributing free gas stoves, while announcing that kerosene was much more expensive than LPG.

But now the price of LPG is high and the stocks of 12 and 50 kilogram tanks have run out at the markets. Then the president asks the minister of energy and Pertamina to back the LPG price normally.

That is why I suggest that the public never favor the advise of the President and Vice President over professional opinions. Because they will look for profits for themselves rather than profits for the public. So the next leaders of this country should not be businessman, but statesmen instead.

Thus under SBY/JK, the public are often cheated. None of their policies are really advantageous for the public. Another case, the cash assistance (BLT) for the poor is only Rp 100,000 per month but prices have gone up more than 100 percent. It is a public lie policy.
ACHMAD BAIHAQI
Kediri, East Java

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