Latest Cooking Gas Prices: You will have to dig deeper into your pockets to afford cooking gas. This is because the prices have risen to yet another high.
To afford the 6kg cooking gas, you will have to cough about Sh. 1,500. Shockingly, this same product was selling at lows of Sh. 600 to Sh. 800 a few months ago.
Bizna Kenya has also learned that the cost of refilling the 13kg cooking gas will cost upwards of Sh. 3,300. This same cooking gas was trading at below Sh. 2,000 a few months ago.
The rise in costs has been attributed to the 16 per cent value added tax charged by the government, the increased landed cost, and the 20 per cent increase in freight charges.
In January 2022, the prices for cooking gas hit an eight year high of nearly Sh. 3,000 with multiple sellers pricing the 13-kg cylinder at Sh. 2,978.
The rise in the cost of cooking gas has been in tandem with the rise in the cost of fuel. Currently, the cost of petrol is currently Sh. 144 per litre while diesel is selling at Sh. 125 per litre.
Kerosene is selling at Sh. 113 per litre. This hike in fuel prices follows a shocking fuel shortage that brought Kenya to a halt for three weeks from late March 2022.
Kenya’s LPG business is mainly controlled by big players, including Total, Vivo, Rubis, Oil Libya and Africa Gas and Oil (AGOL), which owns Proto gas.
The bulk of the cooking gas used in Kenya comes in through the ports of Dar es Salaam and Mombasa but supply and distribution are concentrated among a few players.
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