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Comment from a reader on "The Subic Fuel Pricing Cartel":

Your logic is all twisted. What you are asking is the same thing as complaining about the price of a San Miguel Beer in Makati being double or even triple the prices at a restaurant in Baloy Beach. Same commodity, right? Apples and oranges people.

The cost of doing businss on SBMA a whole lot higher than in the cheaper rent area outside of San Fernando.

Now I am not so naive as to think that is the only reason. There certainly could be some price gouging, but there are several other gas stations in Olongapo that one has to choose from. I believe that if they could offer diesel or gas cheaper at these competing stations, they would. It's the market, baby.

[The Subic Bulletin] The cost of fuel is not just high inside the Subic Freeport but in Olongapo as well, are you going to tell us that Olongapo is a premium area also? Besides the reader below informs us that fuel is much cheaper inside of Clark? Is that a cheap rent location as well. Fact is Subic Olongapo customers are getting fleeced for no reason at all.

Comment from a reader on "The Subic Fuel Pricing Cartel":

Inside Clark Diesel is PHP23 a litre.Where is the accountability for this nonsense?

[The Subic Bulletin] And Another:

Maybe somebody should complain to the DTI. It obviously is some sort of fixing. The receipts from Petron in the "Freeport" are VAT free but obviously not profit free.

[The Subic Bulletin] Nobody expects the businesses in the Subic Freeport to be "profit free" but we do expect value for money, after all we hope that the Freeport is really a Freeport somehow.