Stabilization or Reduction of Consumption of Petroleum Products

September 11, 1973

LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 125

 

Pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated 21 September 1972, and General Order No. 1, dated 22 September 1972, and in order to conserve foreign exchange and reduce the threat to national security from an overdependence on imported petroleum for the efficient functioning of the national economy, you are hereby directed to take all steps necessary to stabilize or reduce the consumption of petroleum products of all sorts including but not limited to: cd

(1) improving public transport by the use of electrical mass transit modes, in the urban areas and reliable mass transit in the rural areas;

(2) patronizing public over private transport thru higher taxes on gasoline for private cars and accessories and higher expressway tolls;

(3) reducing urban parking space;

(4) encouraging mass group tours instead of family tours for holidays by provincial boundary tolls on private cars;

(5) regulating public lighting hours; cdt

(6) concentrate on indigenous energy sources for electric power generation;

(7) regulating general aviation flying hours;

(8) constructing cement instead of asphalt roads;

(9) deferring the lifting of curfew hours.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 11th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Three. aisa dc