Tonight, after weeks of seeing how Shell Katipunan (Blue Ridge area) was advertising lower-cost super unleaded gasoline E-10 always P2 lower than super unleaded, we finally decided to pay the station a visit, hopeful that we could save a few precious pesos from buying said variant. The station hand asked what model the car was and if it was fuel-injected. He then got the list of allowable cars and saw that the Revo we got in 2004 was not in the list. Ergo, we couldn’t avail of the cheaper gasoline. Toyota-manufactured vehicles starting 2006 could. But guess what? Honda’s starting 1996 could. How explain the disparity?
According to my son, you cannot go wrong with a Honda engine. he added that Honda is always ahead of everyone else, and based on the list we saw, it’s at least a good 10 years ahead. Oh well, too late for regrets that we didn’t get a Honda then or that we got a Toyota 2 years before they decided to have fuel-injected engines. We’ll just have to find other ways to save precious pesos.
As I thought hard, it occurred to me: maybe MMDA Chair Fernando can allow car to make left turns where they could prior to his installation of the U-turn slots? Please Mr. BF? That would save motorists a good deal of gasoline and other car inputs, depreciation costs, even because then they’d travel shorter distances. In our case for example, while before we could just take a left turn to our street from Katipunan, now we have to travel several meters and make a U-turn to get to our street which is perpendicular to Katipunan. Going to Libis also taxes car engines and gasoline consumption because coming from Katipunan, one cannot simply turn left to Eastwood but must drive a distance to a U-turn slot and back to Eastwood. Mr BF, please? The P1.50 increase in fuel prices every week for the past several weeks is no longer funny; to begin with, it never was. Sure, surging oil prices is a worldwide phenomenon, but you can effect fuel savings for Metro Manila motorists by rescinding your U-turn slot scheme. I sincerely hope and pray you’ll consider this suggestion…
