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Marlon Tan has been connected with the energy industry for the past 15 years.

Brace for a fuel shortage in Luzon and thereafter, an economic crisis

With the stroke of a pen, the president, through Executive Order No. 839, ordered oil companies to rollback their retail prices to October 15 levels.
 

A failure to communicate

What does a deregulated oil industry mean? In a recent column, former Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno summed it up this way: ...
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Screwing the entrepreneur

Government needs to think about the consequences of its moves, and stop passing the buck to the private sector. ...
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Remedies for cartelization

On April 2, the Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of Republic Act No. 8479, otherwise known as the “Downstream Oil Deregulation Law”. ...
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Wringing their hands

Now that oil companies have adjusted prices by Php1.50 per liter for gasoline, diesel, and kerosene, instead of the usual weekly Php0.50 adjustments, officials have ...
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Playing with power

Our readers will recall that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) during the Energy Summit to petition the Energy Regulatory ...
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Coupons!

American retail chains routinely include glossy, colored ad supplements in newspapers with coupons offering discounts anywhere from basic commodities such as milk, to personal items ...
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Pulling out of Petron

The recent announcement that Saudi Aramco was in the market to sell its 40-percent share of Petron to the London-based investment fund Ashmore came as ...
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Dissecting the Energy Summit

Last January, the Philippine Energy Department hosted, amid much pomp and pageantry, the Energy Summit. Anyone who was someone was there: CEOs of all the ...
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Purging the Pandacan Terminals and scuttling the nation’s supply security

In a unanimous, 5-0 vote, the First Division of the Supreme Court wrote finis to the existence of the Pandacan Terminals as we know it. ...
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Finally, Some Good News

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A Crisis, An Opportunity

Two days before the torture video was made public, I was conferring with a colleague and an official of the Aquino administration essentially offering assistance

Media and the Manila Hostage Crisis

Once again, the media is in the media. After audiences worldwide were treated to ringside seat views of the drama as it unfolded last Monday,

Killers, the Police and the State

The main function of the State is to protect the citizens’ right to life, right to private property, and right to liberty. When people have

The Ground Zero Mosque Controversy: Nativist Aversion to the Unfamiliar

The intuitive reaction to the proposed mosque near Ground Zero is understandably negative. Why build a Muslim place of worship next to a site

COMING HOME FOR P-NOY: Tales from the 2010 Inauguration

My wife and I came to Manila last June 27, 2010, to attend the inauguration of President-Elect Benigno Aquino III as the 15th President of

Brain Gain

In the 1970's, the phenomenon that is international migrant work started to become most palpable to us who are in their late 30's and 40-somethings

Rep. JV Ejercito : Be Heedful of Alvarez’s claims

San Juan City Representative JV Ejercito today urged the Filipino people to be heedful of Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez’s claims of fully ‘revamping’ the bureaucracy,

REVOLVING DOORS

Reputation and credibility are very important for media practitioners. They live and build a career on these two elements. What happens then to

Using Smart Power

The approval of the $434 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) grant for development projects in the Philippines is a clear indication of America’s trust or
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