Bus drivers reel from oil crisis

Bus drivers rest as they park their vehicles outside a parking lot in Parañaque City on Wednesday, 22 April 2026. Inocencio Laguna Jr., a driver plying the SM Fairview–Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange route, says his daily earnings have dropped from about 1,200 pesos to 600 pesos as fuel costs rise amid the war in the Middle East. To conserve diesel, he now completes only two trips a day instead of three.