A tug-of-war on which agency takes supervisory and regulatory function over the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) industry looms, with proposals that this shall be taken out from the jurisdiction of the Department
of Energy (DoE) and be transferred to the Department of Trade and Industry.

Consumer and Oil Price Watch (COPW) chairman Raul T. Concepcion made the proposal, mainly anchoring it on the pricing aspect of the industry as a way to protect consumers.

function over the LPG sector, in terms of ensuring quality and safe handling of the products – a domain which the DoE tried to improve on over the years.What he forgot to emphasize though is if the DTI has the expertise to supervise or exercise regulatory

It must be noted that aside from pricing, the other major problem in the LPG industry is the rising number of cylinders or tanks already due for scrapping, about 3.0 million of those are still being circulated in the market.