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By MARYA SALAMAT
“What enriches oil companies greatly impoverishes Filipino consumers, especially public utility drivers.” – PISTON Partylist
By MARYA SALAMAT
Progressive groups are criticizing the Independent Oil Price Review Committee for limiting itself to ‘surface data’ and refusing to delve deeper into the supply contracts and inventories of oil companies; for starting from the assumption that the Oil Deregulation Law is for the people’s benefit; and for relying on data ‘voluntarily supplied’ by oil companies.
Sidebar:Probe on findings of Independent Oil Price Review Committee urged
By MARYA SALAMAT
In recognition of its consistent record in fighting for the people’s welfare against incessant oil price hikes, the Oil Deregulation Law, and the VAT on oil products, the Comelec approved the application for accreditation of transport group Piston as a partylist group.
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
By MARYA SALAMAT
“For humanitarian consideration, it is appropriate that the government restrain all price hikes at this point.” -- Anakpawis
By MARYA SALAMAT
Progressive organizations, business and transport leaders are dismayed at the fact that the government, up to now, has no system to monitor or explain how the oil companies profit and how much. Neither does it have a benchmark for defining excessive profits and penalties for such.
By MARYA SALAMAT
While progressive groups welcome the review, they worry about the independence of the committee, the quality of, and its hesitation to share, the data it would be getting, and the limits that it imposes on itself.
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...
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
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...
By MARYA SALAMAT
In Congress there are 14 proposals and three resolutions calling for the review or scrapping altogether of the Oil Deregulation Law and Value-Added Tax on oil products.
Sidebar: Aquino’s VAT windfall, defense of oil firms’ ‘greed’ questioned
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com There have been mixed reactions from the public regarding the National Day of Protest last March 15. While in the main, people are more aware and supportive of protest actions against oil price increases compared to before, still,...
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...
By SONNY AFRICA IBON Foundation, Inc. As the world marks International Consumer Rights Day, research group IBON said that the consuming public, which bears the brunt of unabated oil price hikes, has the right to know how the oil companies determine oil prices. The...
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Follow Bulatlat.com's live coverage of the March 15 National Day of Protest.
By BENJIE OLIVEROS
Giant oil companies, banks and investment houses have invented other blatant ways of pushing up oil prices, aside from monopoly pricing and speculative trading in oil futures.
By BRANDON LEE Northern Dispatch LAGAWE, Ifugao — On the 22nd General Assembly of the Ifugao Bus and Jeep Operators and Drivers Association (IBJODA), they invited as speaker Mr George San Mateo, chairman of PISTON, a nationwide confederation of drivers and...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The law of classical economics dictates that when demand exceeds supply, prices go up and dampens demand until it reaches equilibrium with the supply. On the other hand, when demand is low and supply exceeds it, prices would go down...
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.
Youths march a dragon to drive away ‘bad luck’ of price, tuition hikes(Photo by Pher Pasion)
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