Quote Originally Posted by ghosthunter View Post
Yet the taxis are benefitting from cheap Auto-LPG for a few years already and that is without any government dole outs.
Cite the school.
Ask Romski123

But the point is, is that 60% local stuff critical parts? No! Don't argue percentages when the critical components are still all imported.

It's just like arguing the percentage of a locally built bus. It might be 80% local but it's critical parts are still all imported.
Still local parts no matter how insignificant.Point is, you are using local material, technology and labor. Which means local employment and income.

And what about these Toyotas, Mitsubishis, Hyundais, Kias...all-imported, what benefits our local economy get? Or plain and simple drain to our national coffers?

So what is beneficial for you?

Well, buying and properly applying the correct technology like Auto-LPG kits can lead to better solutions that are self-sustaining and socially beneficial like public transport that can be both cheap for the riding public yet profitable for the operator.
Where will you get the kits? All-imported again? How much? Who will pay? barely earning jeepney drivers?

Government subsidy? Where will the government get the money?Saddled with 4.3 trillion peso debt caused by a yearly 8-11 billion trade deficits due to massive importation, where will the government get the foreign exchange to import again auto lpg kits?

What is the point of trying to be "green" or "locally-made" when it is not economically feasible to be self-sustaining?
The question is what is the point of trying to be "green" if its not economically feasible to be self-sustaining if you just come up with another idea of importing again kits neither a lowly jeepney driver nor the government ca afford?

Is that your idea of self-sustaining?

How about the maintenance of this? Import spareparts again? Imports subjected to foreign exchange fluctuations ?

In the long run, going local is better. More local materials, technology and labor, more employment and income.. and greener environment..

You are citing countries with populations that can sustain such enterprises into technology transfer.
How about Malaysia?

Our population is bigger than Malaysia.


Unfortunately the Philippine experience in such ventures of so-called "technology transfer" is nothing more than simply a bust. Our car companies are nothing more than assembly plants for parts shipped from abroad. Most critical parts (like engines) are still made elsewhere as it was for decades.
Thats correct.

So want do you want. Remain like this? A perpetual importer of vehicles?

You are also confirming the fact that we can never get anything from this car companies including technology transfer. They are only after our income and foreign exchange and nothing more.

Why not start now, perhaps in 10, 20, 30, 40 years we can build our own locally made vehicle.

Its an embarassment for a country supposedly predicted by international agencies that we are among the emerging 11 countries in the future without a respectable auto industry.

Why not start from this vehicle you incessantly berating?

In the end, if we can master this technology, we might graduate from just making this ee jeepneys.