Rep. Liza Maza of Gabriela Women’s Party today hit Arroyo’s Executive Order 845 that officially lifted the price cap on petroleum products and described it as a tool for oil companies to rake in super profits and for the Arroyo administration to continue increasing revenues from 12 percent expanded value added tax (VAT) on oil. read more »
DAVAO CITY – While giant oil firms and the Malacañang are on a staged war over Executive Order 839, which ordered a selective oil price freeze in aid of the typhoon Ondoy and Pepeng victims in Luzon, public transport sector and urban poor communities here said there is no looming oil shortage, only less superprofits for the oil cartel. read more »
After imposing price controls over fuel prices, two militant lawmakers are now urging the Palace to place electricity distributed by the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) under Executive Order 839 to avert a looming rate increase. Executive Order 839 was issued in the aftermath of back-to-back storms that ravaged the Philippine main island of Luzon, where a state of calamity remains in effect. read more »
EVEN as top oil refiner Petron Corp. issued estimates of a P1.5-billion quarterly loss for complying with Executive Order (EO) 839, which freeze oil prices in Luzon to give the public relief from recent calamities, the clamor to extend the EO’s effects to Visayas and Mindanao mounted on Wednesday. read more »
MANILA – Tinawag ng mga kongresista na “blackmail" ang babala ng mga kumpanya ng langis na magkakaroon ng kakulangan ng suplay sa mga produktong petrolyo sa bansa dahil sa ipinalabas na kautusan ng pamahalaan. read more »
Rep. Liza Maza of Gabriela Women’s Party today joined mothers and women in protesting the increase in the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and called on House Committee on Energy Chairperson Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo to act on House Bill 1126 filed by the Gabriela solon in 2007 to include LPG and kerosene in the list of basic commodities. read more »
