00:00 A new wave of price hikes seem to take effect again next week.
00:04 More or less one peso per liter for gasoline and up to 50 centavos for kerosene.
00:11 Bus drivers and operators now looking to request for fair hikes after jeepneys.
00:16 A provincial bus operators group says not only fuel prices are increasing.
00:22 "All cost factors like diesel cost, sueldo, toll fees, maintaining the buses, cost of units,
00:35 tumaas na lahat. The only way na babawi namin yun ay sa fare increase."
00:40 City and provincial buses plan to file a joint petition in two weeks' time or by September.
00:47 The last fair hike for buses was approved in the same month in 2022.
00:51 "Ang petition namin, bigyan muna kami ng provisional.
00:55 So kung pwede, dahil immediate yung problema, pag naging stable na yung mga cost components,
01:06 saka nila i-adjust."
01:08 Bus driver Radzac says he's concerned he may get lower wage with higher pump prices.
01:15 "Eh magkano na lang ang matitira sa amin? Ay hindi lang naman diesel tumataas ma'am. Lahat. Pati
01:22 bigas. Akala ko bahinti. Hindi naman pala bahinti. Triple na eh. Wala nang ano ngayon, mura."
01:31 One UV Express group is appealing for additional fuel subsidy in the soonest possible time.
01:38 They also call on the government to temporarily remove the taxes on fuel
01:43 under the oil deregulation law. The group points out they have yet to fully implement
01:48 the fair hike earlier approved, competing with other public transport vehicles.
01:53 As UV Express driver Ray tells us, he only makes P500 a day from 2 in the morning to 10 in the
02:07 evening. "Katulog yan, hindi pa kami kumikita. Doge na kami sa diesel. Halos linggo-linggo tumataas."
02:15 Kari Gator, CNN Philippines.
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