The union’s joint statement said: “According to the decision issued by the General Directorate of Petroleum, the replacement fee for metal bottles was set at $1.70 for each bottle weighing 10 kilograms, to be met within the final approved price, while the decision entered into force immediately after its issuance.”
The representative of the Retail and Wholesale Gas Distributors Syndicate in the North, Mustafa Al-Atar, explained that “additional fees were imposed on gas, adding $30 to each ton to contribute to replacing gas bottles damaged as a result of the Israeli aggression, in addition to $40 that had previously been approved during the era of former Energy Minister Walid Fayyad.”
He added: “Thus, the total of this fee rises to $70 per ton, in addition to another fee of $100 per ton, bringing the total fee to $170 for each ton of gas. By calculating these fees on a 10-kilogram domestic gas bottle, the citizen bears approximately $1.70 additional US dollars for each refill.”
He continued: “All this increase and media hype that took place on social media from some questionable unions that justified the random increase that was imposed in the price composition schedule of the Ministry of Energy due to the aggression against Lebanon on the grounds that it helps citizens whose homes were destroyed, under the pretext that the bottles are still under the rubble to be helped to replace them is an unfair decision to the people of the South and the citizens afflicted by this aggression. Rather, it increases the pressure on the citizen by adding a new burden of the pressures of living life. Therefore, we ask the Ministry of Energy to restore Considering the new decision that is unfair to the southern citizen in particular and the Lebanese in general.”
