Cooking gas consumption drops 35pc on high prices

A truck ferrying  liquid petroleum gas.


Consumption of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) dropped by 35 percent in the first half of the year, as the impact of the high prices driven by taxes and the Russia-Ukraine conflict forced Kenyans back to dirty fuels.

Data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBD) shows that Kenyans bought 123,150 tonnes of cooking gas in the six months to June this year, down from the 188,850 tonnes purchased in a similar period last year.

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