People from all over the world are experiencing the continuous oil price hike. The crisis is not isolated in the Philippines, so to say. Sadly, we cannot do anything about it because the problem is rooted with the producers who have complete control over its supply.
Yet, there really is something that we can do for ourselves, if not for the continuous oil price hike in our country.
Our government should have somehow anticipated this kind of crisis because of the mounting tension in the Middle East these past few years. Instead of on politics, our government should have concentrated more on harnessing alternative sources of energy. Here in our country are lots of them: solar, geothermal, hydrothermal, wind, and even nuclear. Our country has lots or raw potentials waiting to be harnessed but was unfortunately exploited instead.
I can also recall a Filipino inventor who demonstrated a water-fueled car engine. It was a work of wonder; if utilized and developed more properly, it could save us millions of our budget in buying fuel and of course help control pollution by more or less than ninety per cent. But what happened with the inventor and his wonderful invention? His name wasn’t even celebrated for the miracle he had done. Instead, he was left unnoticed, and so he was left with no other choice but to sell it to the country that appreciated his genius which is Japan. If only our government would pay close attention to these things and set aside even for a moment politics, then this could be beneficial to the majority of the people, not just to them.
Philippines should realize that there is none that could help us but ourselves. We must realize our strengths, play by them, and harness them to their full potentials—but not up to the extent that we will exploit them. Fuel might be the main source of energy in our country, but that doesn’t mean we cannot tap other alternative resources. It all boils down to proper utilization and management of resources.
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