December 27, 2023. Thailand’s 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.
Pirapan said that this subsidy extension would serve as a New Year’s gift from his Ministry.
He said he had taken heed of calls from public transport operators as well as trucks and taxi drivers who submitted their complaints about high NGV gas prices on November 2.
In response, he said, he had set up a panel to consider measures to help them. The panel, which is chaired by Norkun Sitthiphong, proposed measures on NGV subsidies to PTT’s board of directors and the board approved them on December 21.
