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Energy 88, Letter to ERC re petition by 3 wind companies for higher FIT
This is my letter to the ERC last month.------------To: re-twg@erc.gov.ph, twg-re@erc.gov.ph28 December 2016Hon. Jose Vicente B. SalazarChairmanEnergy Regulatory CommissionPasig CityDear Chairman...
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BWorld 102, Top 10 news of 2016
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last December 27, 2016.Since government by nature consists of force and coercion, legislation and regulation, mandatory contribution and taxation, it naturally...
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Global warming hits Asia, Part 5
Some news reports in the first week of 2017, last week, except the report from Vietnam, mid-December 2016.When I drove from Iloilo to Manila last week January 01, it was a wet New Year in Panay island...
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Market failure vs. Government failure, Part 6
An article today in BWorld says, "A market failure, in the parlance of economics, means a situation in which free markets produce wasteful outcomes."The above statement is wrong on 2 counts: (1)...
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BWorld 103, How to improve the RORO system
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last December 28, 2016.The Roll-on, Roll-off (RoRo) boat system of transporting trucks, buses, and cars from one island to another is among the best inventions for...
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Energy 89, DOE not concurring with PH's Paris agreement, good
Some PH Senators declared that the Senate will ratify the Paris Agreement of more expensive, unstable electricity "to save the planet" even if the DOE did not concur with it. Portion of the report...
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BWorld 104, Top 10 positive news in Asian trade
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last January 04, 2017.Global trade has significantly slowed down in 2015 which is ironic because it was the start of significant oil price declines. After...
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Inequality 31, Economics, politics and forcing equality
A number of my friends have posted in facebook in agreement with this article from The Economist, "To be relevant, economists need to take politics into account." so I will post to contradict it. This...
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Transport Econ 20, On traffic and road sharing
My former teacher at UP Diliman, Prof. Segundo "Doy" Romero posted one hour+ ago about road sharing. Part of his post,"...As a people we should resolve to now be moving people, but we are moving...
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BWorld 105, Top 10 energy news of 2016
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last January 6, 2017.Here is my list of 5 international and 5 national or Philippine important energy issues last year.INTERNATIONAL1. Donald Trump and his energy...
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Climate Tricks 58, Trump's climate advisor to reverse US government alarmism
Mr. Trump has a foul mouth but in terms of climate and energy policies, he is a realist, not alarmist. Now the world should begin to realize that climate change is mainly nature-made, not...
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Tax Cut 28, On Trump's planned 15% income tax
These are some news reports and my brief notes last January 11-12, 2017, posted in my fb wall. "if the Trump administration follows through on a pledge to cut the corporate income-tax rate from 35...
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BWorld 106, Top 10 projections for Asian economies
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last January 12, 2017.Taking off from the paper by a friend and fellow columnist Romy Bernardo’s “Wishes for the economy in 2017” last Monday, this paper will make...
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Japan and China courting the Philippines
Here's a news report from forbes last January 14, 2017. I think both will win. Both will have greater access to the PH's (a) big, young population as consumers or needed migrant labor, (b) SE Asia's...
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Climate Tricks 59, Alarmism by the socialists and global ecological central...
Socialists and trying-hard anti-capitalism ideologues in facebook, youtube, etc. who also severely enjoy facebook capitalism, youtube capitalism, keep harping about "man-made" warming/climate change...
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BWorld 107, Top 10 myths for oil tax hike
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last January 17, 2017.An excise tax is defined by the Department of Finance (DoF) as “a tax on products that have a negative effect on health or the environment......
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Energy 90, On having mandatory RES for contestable electricity consumers
I found this news report a twist -- the PCCI, Ateneo, San Beda, RDC question the retail competition and open access (RCOA) provision of EPIRA. I thought people hate monopolies, like Meralco and the...
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Agri Econ 25, On DA's plan for solar irrigation
This news report today caught my attention. It smells like a huge racket and waste. On average, it takes 1.5 to 2 hectares of land to install 1 MW (or 1,000 kW) solar capacity, of which only around 180...
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BWorld 108, Rising feed in tariff (FIT) due to more wind-solar power
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last January 24, 2017.Cheaper electricity and stable energy supply are among the important components to have fast and sustainable economic growth.On Jan. 17, the...
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Debating with a Du30 or Pinol faceless supporter (or troll?)
As I posted below about DA's solar irrigation proposal for P20 B next year, one faceless stranger named Federico Reyes debated me in my wall. First he posted the media release of DA Sec. Pinol, then a...
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