It’s no longer funny to call President Aquino’s administration a “student-council” government. Its incompetence will cost you and me— if the Supreme Court doesn’t rule Meralco’s steep rate hike for December illegal— lots of money, because of the unwarranted electricity expenses.

While the structure of our power industry is already so flawed that we will suffer the highest rates in the world, Energy Secretary Carlos Petilla played a big, stupid role in the spike in electricity rates for December.

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