By MARYA SALAMAT
In recognition of its consistent record in fighting for the people’s welfare against incessant oil price hikes, the Oil Deregulation Law, and the VAT on oil products, the Comelec approved the application for accreditation of transport group Piston as a partylist group.
‘Every day Aquino delays investigating oil overpricing is glorious day for oil cartel’ – PISTON (Photo by George San Mateo / Bulatlat.com)
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Because of the almost weekly increase in oil prices, there is a growing consensus among some lawmakers, peoples’ organizations and various consumers’ advocates that the most immediate relief the Aquino government can give is to remove or reduce the Value-Added Tax (VAT) on oil products. Since last week, even…
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – Jeepney drivers and operators led by the Pinagkaisang Tsuper at Operators Nationwide (Piston) condemned in coordinated protest-actions all over the Philippines the alleged collaboration of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III and the three big oil companies in continuously overpricing its petroleum products. Piston chapters staged…
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY Gregorio B. “Jhun” Dantes Jr.