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500-M Fuel Subsidy is a tentative and selective solution

Press Statements

 

              The 500-M fuel subsidy to franchised jeepneys and tricycles is a tentative and selective solution to the escalating fuel crisis which demands a nationwide all-sector solution which must be more lasting.

              A cosmetic balm to avert a transport strike is a deceitful approach being deodorized as a “populist” initiative.

              The fuel subsidy is a haphazard remedy even as the executive order admittedly has not been detailed, crafted and finalized.

              While the President’s admission that we have “no control” over the developments in the Middle East is defeatist, albeit true, the Aquino administration must exercise control over policies to adequately address the aftermath in the Philippines of the Middle East crisis.

              The country has faced and surmounted worse crises before and the responses of the previous administrations could be instructive to the Aquino administration.