The price of cooking gas for household use will remain capped at 24.87 baht per kilogramme until the end of October, requiring a government subsidy of 7.87 baht per kg, the Energy Policy Administration Committee said on Thursday.
The committee had earlier been expected to start raising the price of of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by one baht per kilogramme per month in order to ease the burden on the Oil Fuel Fund, which has run up debts totalling 120 billion baht from subsidising fuel — mainly diesel and cooking gas — this year,
