(Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has floated possible ways the government can "compromise" in order to alleviate the impact of surging local fuel prices. This, as Romualdez announced the conduct of a...
So critical is the issue on skyrocketing pump fuel prices that Congress should be allowed to hold special sessions in order to help remedy the situation. House Deputy Speaker Mikee Romero (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Deputy Speaker and 1-Pacman Party-list Rep. Mikee Romero made this pitch to...
The decision of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) to go against the grain and impose power rate cuts amid steadily rising pump fuel prices wasn't lost to former AGHAM Party-list Rep. Angelo Palmones. Meralco logo In a statement, Palmones hailed the power distribution giant for announcing a...
Former AGHAM Party-list Rep. Angelo Palmones finds the continued pump fuel price hikes in the early part of 2022 very concerning as it shows the vulnerability of Filipino consumers to the volatile international oil market. (MANILA BULLETIN) “Fuel prices are continuously increasing and consumers...
Malacañang is looking at both the possibility of suspending the excise tax on fuel and giving fuel subsidies to the public transport sector amid the soaring prices of petroleum. (Manny Llanes/ MANILA BULLETIN) Thus said Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque in a virtual press conference Monday,...