Energy Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga said he was urging the state-owned oil and petrol company, PTT Plc, to continue granting NGV subsidies for taxis, trucks, buses and general motorists next year.

THE ENERGY Policy Administrative Committee yesterday resolved “conditionally” to float the prices of natural gas for vehicles on July 16, strip PTT of its monopoly on imports of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and raise the Oil Fund’s levies on petrol, gas