Tricycle drivers in Dumaguete City will join today’s nationwide protest against the excessive increase in fuel prices, especially premium gasoline, that was costs P62.50 per liter in the city.
Eddie Lazaro, chairman of the ND Motor Piston, Dumaguete Chapter, said the government must do something to cushion the impact of the nonstop fuel price hikes.
Driver-members of ND Motor Piston will drive around the city, blowing their horns as a sign of protest against the inability of the government to address the situation, Lazaro said.
He urged other transport groups to join the noise barrage in selected streets of the city.
The group is also petitioning the City Council to adjust the existing fare rate in Dumaguete for motorcabs-for-hire, under the automatic adjustment scheme.
Meanwhile, Fabian Magallanes, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan provincial chairman, lambasted what he described as the cartelization of the fuel industry, and called for an investigation of government officials who might be involved in the activity.
Magallanes reiterated Bayan’s call for the scrapping of the 12 percent value-added tax on fuel, and the oil deregulation law.*
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