M. Santiago Proposed Bill: Phase out 2008 below car models

**Just** · July 4th, 2011 05:35 PM

not sure if there is already a topic about this or not so, mods, paki merge na lang if ever meron na po...

this is according to the news in gma7 just today, and i think sen. meriam is making a resolution to phase out these cars... what can you say? i'm thinking ano kaya model ng car ni meriam?

**uls** · July 4th, 2011 05:41 PM

saw a headline yesterday gusto i-phase out ni M.Santiago mga pre-2008 na sasakyan

not gonna happen

sobra dami tututol dyan

**fourtheboys96** · July 4th, 2011 05:45 PM

yung 1990s below models nga hindi ma-phase, eh yung 2008 or older pa.

hindi porket magaling na lawyer siya, eh magaling na din siya sa lawmaking.

**Just** · July 4th, 2011 05:47 PM

naisip ko nga, di kaya walang matira sa mga buses at jeep natin? hhahaha

**uls** · July 4th, 2011 05:52 PM

mas dapat nga i-phase out mga PUJ kesa mga private vehicles

kung year model ang pag uusapan ano yr model ba mga PUJ na yan?

**oliver1013** · July 4th, 2011 08:24 PM

Walang matitira sa garahe ko, pinaka bago 08 model,hehe

**userfriendly** · July 4th, 2011 08:55 PM

Can we retire politicians who have served before 2008, di rin sila efficient. Inefficient politicians have been known to waste tax payers time and money.

**myk384** · July 4th, 2011 09:01 PM

Full article:

Miriam wants your not-so-old car banished from the road
By Vernon B. Sarne — 03 Jul 2011

If Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago had her way, Philippine roads would only have really new cars cruising them. According to a story that appeared in The Philippine Star today, the always-controversial lawmaker wants to phase out all "fuel-inefficient" cars manufactured before 2008--which, if you're really poor at math, is a mere three years removed from the present.

In filing Senate Bill 2834, the feisty senator cites environment-protection and fuel-preservation as her main motivation. The article says Miriam wants to banish cars "for which the originally certified measured fuel economy level is less than 18 miles per gallon." Now, we're not sure if the quoted fuel-consumption figure is a typographical error (since we use kilometers per liter, and in all likelihood Miriam's staff was just too lazy to convert what was copied and pasted from US documents), but the equivalent figure (7.65 kilometers per liter) will have many, many car owners howling in protest.

While a fuel mileage of 8km/L or below is indeed less than ideal these days, 7.65km/L is still decent in a third-world country where fuels aren't even as refined as those sold in Europe. In fact, we're still stuck on Euro 2 emission standards even as western countries have been implementing Euro 5 limits since September 2009. Our target date for introducing Euro 4? January 2016, while the developed world is scheduled to move up to Euro 6 by September 2014. That's how far we lag behind in vehicle emission standards.

"High-fuel-consumption automobiles take a considerable toll on the country's fuel supply and cause damage to the environment through greenhouse gas and other noxious gas emissions," Santiago was quoted by The Star as saying.

One glaring loophole here is the premise of cars manufactured before 2008 being phased out. It's such a vague concept. We can assure you that there are brand-new units sitting on showroom floors right now that were manufactured before 2008. We can guarantee you that many units bought in 2009 were, in fact, assembled before 2008. Does Miriam really mean to banish cars that are barely two years old in the garage of their owners?

The good senator will say: "No, only those certified to have a fuel mileage of 7.65km/L or less will be phased out." How does she propose to go about this? Where will we get this certification when the Department of Energy can't even require carmakers to officially divulge their vehicles' fuel-economy numbers?

And then there's the senator's bright idea on how to compensate the affected car owners: "A voucher issued under the program may be applied to offset the purchase price of a new fuel-efficient automobile, a used fuel-efficient automobile or a highly fuel-efficient automobile." Where will these vouchers come from? The government? Really?

Something tells us Miriam and her colleagues just need a legitimate excuse to keep buying new cars every year.

Source: Top Gear.com.ph