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Finished coding and uploading some historical data on Philippine Gasoline Prices. It’s more detailed compared to the previous “only monthly” version of gasoline data I was uploading.

It also fills a previous request we had to include a breakdown of each specific oil player’s pump price. The previous monthly data was just an average and lumped average.
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It’s great that gasoline is cheap right now. In the Philippines its back to 2004 levels, about P30/liter at the pump for unleaded gasoline. I could actually start driving in the road again for recreation. The past year one could only go outside in ones car if one had an actual purpose to it.

I remember back in 1998 when gasoline was at P11/liter. I was fresh out of college, was starting out at a new job and had my first car. It was second hand. Then come 1999, the price of gas was starting to creep up. By 2000 it was at P13/liter. I told myself that if gas hit P15/liter I’d ditch my car and start taking the company shuttle bus. I guess you know how that ended up.
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Well not entirely because you can’t make wood boards out of the malunggay’s trunk. Who would have thought that there were a lot more uses for the Malunggay plant (Moringa in English) other than as a pro lactate for breast feeding women?

Now they’re using it in beauty products, for snake bites, to increase sperm count and even as a biofuel.

In the provinces it was even used as fencing posts. You plant it of course in the place you want the boundaries of your fence to be then tack on the actual fencing material.

And the great thing about it is that it can grow anywhere and doesn’t need that much water.

A true miracle plant indeed.

Wrote this article last night about Solita Monsod’s explanation on how it would be impossible for oil companies to be fixing world gas prices to their advantage.
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You’d be surprised at the price of gasoline around the world. Makes me appreciate how cheap gasoline is in our parts… then again, its not really cheap… gas companies just can’t charge us high because if they did that, nobody could afford to buy their oil then they’d go out of business. Sucks being in a third world country sometimes.