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Article: 'Fuel shortage artificial'.(Main News)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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Not everyone is buying the story of a looming fuel supply shortage being peddled by the country’s oil companies which on Monday claimed they have been financially bleeding because of the price freeze on oil products ordered by Malacañang late last month.One of the non-believers, lawyer Vladimir Cabigao of the Social Justice Society (SJS), branded it as an “artificial shortage” hatched by the three biggest local oil firms to pressure the Palace into lifting Executive Order (EO) 839 pegging oil prices in Luzon to October 15, 2009 levels.The SJS is the same group that accused the “Big Three” Pilipinas Shell, Petron Corporation and Chevron ...