Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) stoves are recognized in other countries to provide a cleaner, safer, more efficient means of cooking. In India, for example, LPG use is promoted and even subsidized by the government.1

Our closer neighbor, Malaysia has doubled its per capita LPG consumption from 2000 to 2012 while Thailand and Indonesia have tripled their consumption in order to move into cleaner cooking fuel.2

Conversely, LPG consumption in the Philippines has simmered in the past 10 years, with demand remaining at an average of 1.1 metric tons yearly from 2009 to 2013. Moreover, the Bureau of Fire Protection reported 800 fires related to LPGs from 2005 to 2013.

We must light a fire under our local LPG sector and ensure sector players comply with safety standards while motivating them to progress as an industry.

This measure seeks to establish a regulatory framework for the importation, refining, refilling, transportation, distribution and marketing of LPG, and the manufacture, requalification, exchange, and swapping or improvement of LPG cylinders.

It shall establish the LPG Monitoring and Enforcement Task Force to create standards of conduct and codes of practice for LPG businesses to provide Filipino consumers high quality LPG for their personal and commercial use.