Malacañang tells transport groups: Be content first with temporary fuel subsidy By Aytch S. de la Cruz 04/03/2011

Malacañang tells transport groups: Be content first with temporary fuel subsidy

By Aytch S. de la Cruz 04/03/2011
Public transport groups that are still complaining about the government’s offer of a temporary fuel subsidy were urged yesterday by Malacañang to be content even for just awhile as the Department of Energy (DoE) continues to study other alternative solutions to address the regular rounds of oil price hikes.

Deputy presidential spokesman Abigail Valte, in a radio interview, expressed that certainly the fuel subsidy which the government plans to implement anytime soon is not enough to address the high pump prices but she appealed for understanding from the dissatisfied public transport groups.

“We never claimed that this (fuel subsidy) will be the end-all and the be-all, the greatest solution to the problem of increasing prices but we did recognize that this is a short-term solution to the pressing problems. Sometimes, we just couldn’t say it publicly before but when this subsidy program was not yet announced, they (public transport groups) were insisting to have this subsidy implemented. Now that it’s already in the works (they’re still complaining),” Valte told the state-run dzRB, in reaction to the criticisms of the Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide (Piston)..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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