On the Excutive Order 839: Temporary oil price freeze!

Mind, Soul 9 November 2009 | 28 Comments

As of the writing of this blog I’m still waiting for the latest developments on the meeting between the Department of Energy and the representatives of oil firms here in the Philippines, the transport groups and the LPG Marketers Association. That meeting discusses the proposals on the Executive Order 839: Temporary oil price freeze over Luzon.

The Major Oil Companies in the Philippines

The Major Oil Companies in the Philippines

I find this a very intriguing issue and scenario.  Oil price is a hot item in the news because it controls many aspects of our human lives including our regular jobs.  It affects our travel fare and the transfer and prices of our basic necessities. It affects peso’s purchasing power which directly alters the lives of employees, SME owners or entrepreneurs and OFW dependents.  That is most of us!

The oil firms  and other industries like that of transport, seem like gods here because business industries and common people are dependent on what they dictate. They seemed to even manipulate the government, one particular incident is creating the tension between DOE and NEDA. Even their supposedly public documents cannot be touched, because their monopoly might be exposed.  With the transport industry, they paralyzes the access to travel of many commuters going to work and going back home.  Until a natural disaster like Ondoy came, which made the Executive Branch of our government acted to control the oil price (for whatever reason it may have).

Jeepney is the most common form of transport in the Philippines

Jeepney is the most common form of transport in the Philippines

This weekend Petron became willing to open it’s Financial Statement!

Let me share some of my observations:

1.  Any company and industry (let me include the government agencies) or individual will protect it’s personal interest!

2.  It/they will do everything to preserve it and eliminate the problems of income impediment.  They will use any means to do it: legal way,  bargaining, falsification and harassment.  They won’t even care how others will be affected.

3.  Pag-napilay saka lang bibigay!

How about you? In your work places and in your businesses, whatever position you have, whether you are the owner, an officer, manager, supervisor, an employee in the rank and file, regular or contractual. Do you only preserve your personal interest? Don’t you care for what your boss, the people below you, your clients and colleagues go through as long as you get what you want?

Are you still waiting for the time when your personal preoccupation is exposed to your shame?  Or until the time you lose everything you are trying to gain?

Let us all be reminded that good character, worth keeping personal and business relationship and leaving behind an honorable lasting legacy is more important than personal gain only!

The good Old Book says, ‘God will judge man’s secrets’ and ‘For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.’

Another passage says, ‘A man reaps what he sows.’

*Bible references: the first line is from Romans 2: 16, the second line is from Matthew 12: 37 and the last line is from Galatians 6: 7.

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