FAIR FARE FOR JEEPNEYS

Drivers and operators and petroleum providers are often in disagreement with each other.  The gas companies would almost always ask for higher pump prices and as soon as the gas prices rises up, drivers and operators will demand for increases in fare as well.  They do that because they say they are dependent on international prices and dollar exchange rates.  And when the international prices sunk really low, they reasoned that they had to recover much of their losses in the past, hence, they cant bring prices yet. 

We do not understand these things that is why we totally rely on government institution to protect us against corporate abuses. But this has been the  common scenario in the past few weeks and months. What we can rationalize is that when one thing goes up, everything linked to it goes up as well and vice versa. Thee is always a direct relation to everything.

When pump prices goes up, and the demands for these drivers to raise fares are not approved, they would go to the streets and rally  their caused.  In stalling the streets and holding the economy for a day will almost always force the government to approve their demand.  In the next day, public transportation fares are increased.

These transportation leaders will argue in front of the television that they are for the welfare of the poor drivers, operators and their respective families.  It is indeed acceptable. I fully agree with their sentiments.

What I abhor is that when the pump prices goes down the fares do not go down together with it.  These drivers and operators together with their leaders adopted the same reasoning as that of the big petroleum companies had.  Isn't that amusing?

This reminds me of the story in the Bible where there was a man who couldn't pay for the the loan he had from his Master. He begged and asked for mercy from his master who right away wrote off his debt. But this same servant couldn't do the same to his fellow servant. His master was mad at him.

Matt 18:32"Then the master called the servant in. 'You wicked servant,' he said, 'I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?' 34In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.