Phoenix cuts oil prices
By Tetch Torres-Tupas
Phoenix Petroleum Philippines will reduce prices of petroleum products on Saturday.
Phoenix Petroleum Philippines will reduce prices of petroleum products on Saturday.
“Miracles at Clark” is how some oldtimers in the Bureau of Customs refer to at least two recent instances when a total of 94 drums of smuggled diesel fuel that the bureau had seized and kept at a warehouse in the Customs Clearance Area at the Clark Freeport were substituted with plain water and sludge.
Ruffy Biazon is doing a good job as head of the Bureau of Customs but he needs help, a party mate running for the Senate said.
Three years into its term, the Aquino administration can no longer blame the oil smuggling problem on any other leadership, and it must now finally ask its economic managers to account for their failure to resolve it, according to senatorial candidate Milagros “Mitos” Magsaysay.
A fisherman was injured when an oil tanker rammed a wooden-hulled fishing boat off Sangley Point in Cavite City Tuesday morning.
Local oil companies are to implement hefty rollbacks in the prices of petroleum products starting early Monday to reflect an equally drastic drop in the price of oil in the international market.
Over a hundred protesters belonging to the transport group Piston, the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), Kilusang Mayo Uno, Gabriela and youth groups marched toward the Caltex and Shell depot here to protest the increasing fuel prices.
Militant groups here failed to paralyze public transport in the Bicol region as only a small number of public utility vehicles in the provinces of Albay, Sorsogon and Camarines Sur took part in a one-day strike on Saturday, the Office of Civil Defense said.
The spill of some 10,000 liters of automotive diesel oil into the sea due to a leak in a pipeline in La Union on Tuesday has been contained, the Philippine Coast Guard said Thursday.
A Department of Justice panel has found probable cause to indict LPGMA Party-list Rep. Arnel Ty and eight others on charges of violating anti-cartel provisions of the Revised Penal Code and Republic Act NO. 8479 or the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act.
MANILA, Philippines—The militant labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno on Saturday threw its support behind the planned transport strike against continuing and frequent gasoline and diesel price increases. . Elmer Labog, KMU chair, said his group supported calls by transport groups for an end to the “overpricing” of oil products and alleged collusion between the government [...]
A group of transport operators has offered to help the government deal with a planned transport strike on Monday by fielding their jeepneys, tricycles and other vehicles to ferry stranded commuters.
Some 30 activists held a lightning rally at the Pandacan oil depot in Manila Thursday morning, defacing the logo of one of the “Big 3″ oil companies with paint as they demanded a rollback in the prices of petroleum products and the scrapping of the oil deregulation law.
