Drivers in Sunyani buy fuel at specific outlets

Varied prices in petroleum products have informed the choice of many commercial drivers to buy the product from specific Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) in the Sunyani Municipality.

A visit by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to some of the OMCs in the Brong-Ahafo Regional capital, revealed that prices of petrol and diesel continued to drop marginally.

Prices of petrol ranged between GH¢ 3.31 pesewas and GH¢ 3.42 pesewas per litre, while diesel was sold between GH¢ 2.89 pesewas and GH¢2.99 pesewas a litre.

According to most of the drivers, they buy the product from the Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) which sells a litre of petrol at GH¢ 3.31 pesewas, instead of the previous price of GH¢3.42 pesewas. Price of diesel has also reduced from GH¢ 2.98 pesewas to GH¢2.89 pesewas.

In a random interview conducted by the GNA, the drivers said a gallon of petrol which contained about 4.50 litres, was sold at GH¢15 at Goil, with the same litres going for more than the price at other OMCs.

They, however, mentioned that despite the drop in fuel prices, lorry fares remained unchanged.

Kofi Ansu, a taxi driver who plies the Sunyani-Abesim road, said drivers had resolved not to reduce the fares because a downward review would affect them due to the unstable nature of the prices in fuel.

Meanwhile, attendants at some of the filling stations within the Municipality had indicated that daily sales of the product kept decreasing, because of the unstable nature of the prices at the various selling points.