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  • Oil deregulation

    Oil firms profiteering thru excessive price hikes

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    Arnold Padilla

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    May 22, 2018
    Oil firms profiteering thru excessive price hikes

    From the start of the year up to May 15, the price adjustments in diesel may have been “excessive” by about Php1.03 per liter and gasoline by Php1.34 centavos per liter. This resulted in about Php53.74 million additional collections every day from diesel and gasoline products for the oil companies.…

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  • Oil deregulation

    Oil firms, government earn almost PHP10 M daily extra income from unjustified price hikes

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    Arnold Padilla

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    March 27, 2018
    Oil firms, government earn almost PHP10 M daily extra income from unjustified price hikes

    These guesstimates merely scratch the surface by comparing local and international price changes. In reality, with or without price adjustments, big oil companies that run and control the global oil industry retail petroleum at prices many times their actual production costs.

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  • Governance

    Selling out PH sovereignty and patrimony for conditional Chinese money

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    Arnold Padilla

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    February 6, 2018
    Selling out PH sovereignty and patrimony for conditional Chinese money

    In exchange for conditional loans that benefit Chinese banks and corporations, the Duterte administration is weakening, if not practically giving up, the country’s claim on 381,000 square kilometers of maritime space as well as vast fishery, oil and gas, and mineral resources.

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  • Governance, Human rights

    Cha-cha ng mga trapo, dayuhan at negosyo

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    Arnold Padilla

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    January 22, 2018
    Cha-cha ng mga trapo, dayuhan at negosyo

    Importanteng maintindihan ang Cha-cha bilang isa sa mga larangan ng pagtutunggalian ng iba’t ibang interes sa ating lipunan. Pangunahin dito ang pagtutunggali ng interes ng mga naghahari at pinaghaharian.

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  • Fiscal issues, Oil deregulation, Poverty

    Bangis ng buwis sa langis

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    Arnold Padilla

    on

    January 17, 2018
    Bangis ng buwis sa langis

    Sabi dati, “matira matibay”. Pero sa ilalim ni Digong at ng kanyang mabangis na buwis sa langis, “matira mayaman”.

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