Gasoline, petrol, petrol products, and lpg prices is getting out of hand

Now...it has go do low

The government should focus on improving our economy. If they do that, then our currency will improve = lower price petrol products. Apparently, the present administration is more focused on other things (like the impeachment case?) Another thing the government could do is to decrease the tax on petrol products until they fix our economy. So militant groups are protesting as a wake up call for the government to do their jobs! So we should appreciate what they are doing.

I don't have a car so I don't worry that much on my daily transportation expense. Adding to the fact that I'm just a ride away from work and can even hitch a ride using the company vehicle. But I'm really agitated on the LPG price increase, 900 plus is already alarming to think that conditions in the Arab region is not that bad yet.

That's exactly the same problem we are dealing with. Last year, our Php 500 worth of diesel is enough for a week of going to school to home again. But now, the P300 is not enough to last for 2 days. I don't know what to do as I have no option. Using jeepney and tricycle would cost me the same plus the extra time spent in travelling. We tried not using the aircon and do some repairs with the car, but its still the same. I hope I have lots of online earning to augment the price increase... but that would be too far to reality. As of today, I am trying to use the charcoal for boiling water, but I know it would be difficult as it is my first time to use it. I hope that the effort will worth the savings. Maybe at this point, we need a miracle....

hi, You are absolutely right. According to me the executives in big organisations who are having perks by way of a decent choupher driven cars should not use the said car alone but to share it with other executives. So that for example say instead of five cars, five persons will travel in one car only. Secondly vehicles run on gas should be used as and when it is very much necessary. For shorter distances try to use public transport, or a walk or a cycle which is very cheap in all the respects.

It is true but the number of private cars and two wheelers seems to prove the reverse.

This is a real challenge for us. We live in a rural area so any trip for services, food, medicine, is now costing 3 times as much and we are told it will go even higher. The main thing we are doing is making any trip we make include as much as we can. A trip to the Doctor will also include food shopping, dropping off items that need repair or picking them up, this makes our trips all day instead of just a couple of hours.

Where I live, it is forbidden to have chimneys or any sort of fire with braches and logs as our city´s air is very polluted. I´m trying to save gas for heat as much as possible by using warm clothes in Winter and having the house colder. But there are items where you cannot save much. I also try to use public transportation as much as I can and only use my car to get to the nearest point where I will have the Metro.

As long as there is dependence upon the oil rich countries for fuel, we have to abide by what prices they dictate whether we like it or not. There are many countries nowadays where they have started using the renewable sources of energy like the sun, wind and water. The government must pay attention to this if they want to limit the fuel prices. Since we cannot use the nuclear power to generate electricity, why not try the solar power? I was reading an article regarding the use of solar panels in Germany and UK, citizens get to earn from the feed in tariffs for the solar panels they install in their roofs. Germany is the world leader in solar technology and people are benefiting from the use of the solar panels as they get a reduction in their monthly fuel bills and get paid through the FIT's. The government must seek measures before everything gets out of hand. This increase in fuel prices would most likely result in another fare increase for the people and a lot of militant action on the streets.

In my opinion protests aren't going to save anything and anybody. The most protests can do is to intimidate a little, but nothing will change. Prices for oil will rise as long as there is not any more of it left, so the prices for everything that is based on oil will also rise, as well as the prices for substitutes for oil and oil products. Electricity is a very good alternative, but there is no one powerful enough that can promote this alternative, because the lords of oil will never allow them to steal their customers. It makes me sick just thinking of them, but this is the world we are living in, and all we ca do is hope for somebody that has money and god will to save us. Or we can try and die for our rights. It's only a matter of choice. All life is a choice.

Prices of any product are determined by the demand and offer. That's what everybody saying this days. But fact is that prices also includes production costs, transportation, and quite a few other factors. On top of that, in today's economy, profit (or plain greed) and speculations of rich and powerful is adding to the price. And while those things I mentioned first are inevitable, those extra burdens is what really makes it hard for us. Fact is that cheap oil (cheap in sense of production costs) is gone. There is still lot of oil reserves in the world, but production costs will rise, and final price with it as well. What can we do? Try to make better use of what we got. Where I live, I still see that most of the cars have one, mostly two passengers in them. If people work together, and living close to each other, why can't they share a car and expenses? We have to use public transportation if it's possible, and bicycles for short distances. Using falling branches is one way of saving too. And generally using energy in wiser and eco friendlier ways is something that we have start to do as soon as possible. Things are going to be worse, and we must get adapt to it, the sooner the better.