{"id":1182265,"date":"2022-08-18T06:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T06:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/stop-creating-artificial-fuel-shortage\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T06:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T06:50:13","slug":"stop-creating-artificial-fuel-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/stop-creating-artificial-fuel-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop creating artificial fuel shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC)\u00a0is calling on the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to check the issue of artificial shortage at some fuel stations.<\/p>\n<p>This comes on the back of complaints by some motorists over the unavailability of petroleum products at some pumps in parts of Accra.<\/p>\n<p>In a<strong> Citi News<\/strong> interview, Head of Research at COPEC, Benjamin Nsiah noted that NPA must sanction the fuel stations that create fuel artificial shortages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOPEC has already been mentioning this particular event to the authorities, specifically NPA to ensure that when prices are about to change, they visit some of these retail outlets to check their tanks and ensure that there are products available. If any retail outlet comes to say there are no products, it means it is an intention to create a shortage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Nsiah further allayed all fears of fuel shortage, adding that there was enough stock in the system to last a month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that there is not going to be fuel shortage in the coming month. What we know is that there is enough fuel to serve the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ycUKadKErV0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alleged fuel shortage: Stakeholders want government to address challenges with foreign currencies\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ycUKadKErV0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC)\u00a0is calling on the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to check the issue of artificial shortage at some fuel stations. This comes on the back of complaints by some motorists over the unavailability of petroleum products at some pumps in parts of Accra. In a Citi News interview, Head of Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1106726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3872,8487,599,4797,534],"class_list":["post-1182265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-artificial","tag-creating","tag-fuel","tag-shortage","tag-stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}