The price of a tank of propane gas is likely to rise as a result of the package of economic measures being proposed by the government. President Hipolito Mejia announced that the current subsidy on propane gas ?would have to be removed without doubt.? However, he then back-pedaled a bit from that position when a reporter from Hoy asked if the subsidy would be removed even on the small tanks used for cooking by lower income homemakers. ?Not that,? replied the president. A popular measure instituted by the Mejia administration in its early weeks is the distribution in poorer neighborhoods of propane gas discount coupons for 50-gallon tanks. However, Senate President Ram?n Alburquerque has charged that a large proportion of the coupon-acquired 50-gallon tanks find their way to Haiti.
