Just as the way Tom Van Howe opens his review on Michigan’s oil spills, let me just share some locally encountered problems regarding this widely encountered problems on the management of energy fuel houses. As any other top grossing countries, Philippines also share its own various companies providing fuel to consumers but sadly, it also shares a lot of massive and minor problems on the management of these. There was an incident of oil spill in the shores of a local town in Visayas containing one of the pipes connecting sources to outputs of a certain oil producing company… an oil leak in an urban apartment that almost killed all the residents, a land dispute over a coal rich site in a far flung province. So much to talk about but today’s issue circles on the desire of companies to seek more sources in order to cope up with the demands of the consumers.
The bottom line is, though we see a lot of flaws from these companies, we as users also have our core responsibility of balancing nature’s resources. Sometimes we tend to abuse energy giving devices that for our own benefits, makes our lives easier; these energy corporations already made steps and guidelines on how to maximize what we have, from saving fuels by walking or turning off lights when not in use. Just simple things that we already know but seldom practice… see these companies face their own problems in storing fuel for us, why give the burden of making a shortage and forcing these people to drill places just to provide for us?