As buses whiz by beyond the police line and trains pass overhead, these children appear to serenade the police who were preventing them from protesting the oil deregulation law. (Sitio San Roque, Quezon City) — in Quezon City, Philippines.
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Oil price hikes: Oil cartel’s attacks on the people’s economic rights, deepen the Moros poverty situation (LTE)
Letter to the Editor March 23, 2012 Disclaimer | What you are reading is either a press release/ statement or a manifesto. These materials do not go through our editorial process and do not reflect our policy or position. The continuing oil price hike imposed by the three big oil companies, Shell, Caltex and Petron,…
Signage ng mga presyo ng gasolina bilang lapida
Ni ROLAND TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Sa edad ng deregulasyon ng mga industriya, biglang nagsulputan itong mga signage ng mga presyo ng gasolina sa mga stasyon. Sa tagiliran lang ito ng sidewalk, sa unang hilera ng mga gas pump prominenteng nakapwesto itong malalaking signage. Sa mga nagmamaneho, matutunghayan ang halos standard naman na presyo ng tatlong bahagi…
How can we stop oil companies from profiteering?
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com Oil companies increased pump prices again. This is the eighth oil price hike since the beginning of the year alone, amounting to a net increase of P6.75 ($0.16) per liter for gasoline and P6.50 ($0.15) for diesel. This would bring the prices of oil products in the country near its peak…
Transport strike, fast-tracked deliberation of oil regulation bill urged
By MARYA SALAMAT
“If the House can fast track the impeachment of Chief Justice Corona, I’m sure we can also fast track the various measures that would halt the incessant oil price hikes and possibly even reduce prices of oil and petroleum products.” – Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño.
Salungguhit: Unreasonable oil price increases
With the way speculators and giant oil companies have been playing with oil prices, one could not help but be incensed. Why would oil prices rise when there has been no supply shock nor an increase in costs of producing oil? The sharp increases in pump prices have been dealing speculators and oil companies, and…
Aquino government pressed to stop oil cartel abuses
By MARYA SALAMAT
During the first three weeks of January alone, the three biggest oil companies have increased the price of diesel by P2.70 ($0.062) per liter, regular gasoline by P2.60 ($0.60) per liter, unleaded gasoline by P2.20 ($0.51) per liter and kerosene by P2.50 ($0.058) per liter.
Sneaky, greedy oil companies
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com While the media is preoccupied with the impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona and its political reverberations, oil companies have been raising pump prices of petroleum products. The continuing increases in pump prices of oil have grave implications on the quality of life of most Filipinos because of its domino effect…
Oil cartel and Aquino asked to “control greed”
By MARYA SALAMAT
Piston blamed the greed for profits by the oil companies and the greed for the Value-Added Tax (VAT) on oil by the Aquino government as the conjoined reasons why the Aquino administration and the energy department are colluding with the monopoly oil companies.
News in Pictures: Protest vs. oil overpricing
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY Gregorio B. “Jhun” Dantes Jr.
What subsidy? Public utility drivers still demand for an oil price rollback
By MARYA SALAMAT
There are 214,596 registered public utility jeepneys in the country, but when the Aquino Government’s Pantawid Pasada program was finally begun first week of May, only 3,000 fuel cards loaded with P1,050 ($34.95) each had been prepared for distribution by the government.