The Philippines: Oil firms are tools of Imperial Manila

EVEN the petroleum companies are rubbing it in. They announced a P2.00-rollback but the beneficiaries are only Metro Manila and Cebu. Beat that? The decision makers of corporate giants in Metro Manila are just as imperious as the lawmakers in the Senate. They think only of Imperial Manila forgetting that we Mindanaons are just as eager to have some relief from the high cost of fuel.

They’re not only unfair they are also sadists. They add salt to wound by saying that only Metro Manila and Metro Cebu will be getting some price cuts on fuel. Is it because the militants and transport groups there are more intimidating and noisy than their clones in Mindanao? Are the motorists in Mindanao lesser mortals than those of Metro Manila and Luzon?

Mindanao should wake up from this iniquitous bias. Remember that monstrous oil spill off the coast of Guimaras? They spent millions of pesos there to retrieve the oil spill. Where did they dispose of the oily murk? In Mindanao. One boatload of oily refuse sunk as the waste cargo approached its destination. Did they bother to recover the barge and the cargo? Nah!!! Mindanao doesn’t matter to them.

Sunstar.com (Davao, Philippines)