Tall electric rates and short attention spans

By The Manila Times

Dec 16, 2013 9:42 pm

Ben D. Kritz

The eruption last week of public outrage and putative official concern over the astonishing increasing in electric rates to be billed by the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) over the next couple months was, it seems, just the latest manifestation of a depressingly predictable pattern in this country:

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