By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“As it turned out, the price freeze was just meant to temper public outrage over the shameless greed displayed by oil firms after hiking petroleum prices during the height of the flooding and devastation brought by the monsoon rains. In the end, oil firms simply could not moderate their greed.” – CAOPI
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Inaction on oil price hikes, ‘huge case of corruption’ – alliance vs oil price increases
By MARYA SALAMAT
“While drivers are being forced to grapple with reduced income and the people with higher fares and costs of goods, the government and the oil companies are swimming in profits and VAT windfall.”
Sidebar: Coalition against oil price increases invites public to join noise barrage on March 30
Coalition against oil price increases invites public to join noise barrage on March 30
Main Story: Inaction on oil price hikes, a ‘huge case of corruption’ – Alliance Against Oil Price Increases By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – ‘While we are drowning in misery, they are swimming in luxury… We are like in a FPJ movie, we are being badly beaten first, before they deign to give us alms…”…
Cebuanos Unite vs Oil Price Hikes
Last Thursday, Aug, 21, 500 Cebuanos marched to the Department of Energy (DoE) Visayas Field Office to denounce the rampant increase in oil price since Republic Act No. 8479 or the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Law, which took effect in July 1998. In a press conference at the Visayas Community Hospital early last week, the…