The Philippine Department of Energy (DOE) announced a contest to design an Electric Tricycle that could be used in Philippine roads. The contest is officially launched with a title of : “Bright Now! Do Right. Be Bright. Go E-trike!”
In partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the DOE is promoting an National Electric Vehicle Strategy program for the Philippines that includes an electric tricycle among the modes of acceptable transportation, along with other electrically powered vehicles.
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Was on our way home one day on the odd occasion that our son was picked up from school. In between that 10 kilometer Jeepney ride between his school and our home I noticed that there were 9 gasoline stations already plying their trade.
10 years ago, if I’m remembering this correctly, there were only about 5 gasoline stations offering up fuel to the long distance travellers heading to some far off province.
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A few days had passed since the arrival of Tropical Storm Sendong (International Name: Washi) which caused an unexpected deluge that cost the lives of already a 1000 residents of Cagayan De Oro and Iligan City in the Southern Island of Mindanao. Nothing paints a more graphic view of the devastation and aftermath than the pictures found in the Atlantic.
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Philippine President, Benigno Aquino III (PNoy), announced that he is holding back plans to buy a dream car till his term ends in 2016. A year back he got into a lot of flak for having purchased a second hand 2007 Porsche for his personal use and in the end he had to sell it.
Personally I think it was really a bad political move to have bought the Porsche because public officials are recommended to live austere lives commensurate to their salary. Although the palace defended that the Porsche was bought with the President’s own money it was still a point of attack for the President’s detractors. In politics it has always been a good practice to never give people a reason to speak ill of you, whether real or perceived. Project an image cleaner than clean as the saying goes.
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The past few months have been terrible for the country of Thailand as their country was swamped with was is reported to be the worst flooding the country has experienced in 50 years. South East Asia was expecting large amounts of rain in 2011 after 2010’s El Nino since La Nina historically always follows afterwards, what we didn’t expect was this huge amount of rainfall lasting a long enough time to engulf an entire country underwater.
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Pointing out that the Philippines has time and time again been said to have one of the highest electricity rates in the world, Aurora Representative Juan Edgardo Angara said that the government should take steps to curb its electricity bill which is expected to cost P10 Billion next year. This is according to the budget allocation for utilities in the 2012 budget.
According to the article, the government pays about P1.25 million/hour on electricity and water costs which is enough to build a classroom (of which the Philippines also has a shortage of) every 30 minutes. He said that by lowering the utilities consumption by just 5% would result in a savings of P500 Million alone.
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