The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC)has appealed to the government to revamp the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) and reduce the country's overdependence on imported refined fuel products, as part of strategic efforts to stabilise and lower petroleum prices in Ghana.

Head of Research at COPEC, Paul Eric Ofori, made this strong appeal while speaking on Channel One TV's Breakfast Daily on Friday, May 16, underscoring the urgent need to get both public and private refineries fully operational to ease the economic pressure on consumers who continue to pay high prices at the pumps. "Let's get TOR running, get the private refineries also running, let's cut down importing finished petroleum products into the country.

It is so expensive, we cannot sustain it.

That way we can have a way of reducing the prices internally." He described Ghana's continued reliance on imported petroleum products as a costly and unsustainable practice, especially when the country has the capacity to refine its own crude oil locally.