The situation is taking a heavy toll on both domestic and commercial businesses as drivers of both commercial and private vehicles continue to queue up at LPG filling stations with their cars for gas.

People who require the product for domestic use are also seen in town with their gas cylinders, desperately searching for cooking gas.

Media last Saturday visited a number of gas filling stations including the Odorkor Mamba Gas and Mallam Filling station where more than 20 taxi cabs and private cars had queued up although the station said it had no supply.

The marketing manager of the station, Augustine Siaw-Wolfensohn, said the last quantity of 21,780 kilogrammes of gas received by the station on February 18 had finished as a result of the rush for it.

Kwaku Manu, a taxi driver told this paper that for the past four days he had to park his taxi since he had run out of gas. The situation, he said, was affecting his livelihood.

He added that he preferred the gas to petrol as the latter was expensive. “When we use gas, we are sometimes able to make 50 percent profit at the end of the day”.

Another taxi driver who gave his name only as Kwame said he was able to get gas in Kasoa after parking his vehicle for more than three days.

An elderly man, Uncle Ebow, who looked helpless said he had been to about eight gas filling stations without success, thus compelling his family to resort to the use of charcoal.

At GICEL Estates at Weija in Accra, a manager of the station, Stephen Adaku said the last supply received by the station was on February 7, and that had finished a week ago.

Most of the station managers expressed worry over the shortage and wondered why officials of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) had not come out with any public statement on the situation.

Our Tema Correspondent, Simmons Kewura reports that the Tema community has also been affected by the situation.

Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer of Tema Oil Refinery, Aba Lokko, told reporter in a telephone interview yesterday that her outfit was not aware of the situation.

“A vessel is supposed to bring LPG into the country but it delays. So I think it might be the cause of the shortage,” she said