Electric vehicles, or EVs, offer a practical response to the oil problem. Instead of gasoline, these cars run on electricity stored in batteries.

When Oil Prices Rise, Electric Cars Shine

In 2008, I wrote in my book that I had predicted the wars and chaos we’re seeing today. I wasn’t clairvoyant in the sense of a sudden, magical foresight; I was catching a thread that often goes unseen until it snaps - the tension between an aging system and the pressure to adapt. The world I live in feels like it’s at a hinge moment, where the decadence of old norms is fraying and revealing the fragility of a structure built on dependence, haste, and crowding toward profits without regard for people or planet.

Stop Debating Destiny: Build Local Power Before Global Collapse

The Department of Energy (DOE) through Secretary Sharon Garin has assured the nation that we have a 60-day supply of petroleum products in the nation’s storage facilities.

Fuel, energy and national security

Meanwhile, both Baby and I deteriorated in health. Since Baby had a long history of hypertension and I had diabetes and was overweight, our common doctor was a cardiologist, Dra. Esperanza “Espi” Icasas Cabral, Director of the Heart Center. Unfortunately for us, GMA appointed her Secretary of Social Welfare and, later on Secretary of Health. Baby and I were deprived of medical advice for about two years from 2005 to 2007.

59/58/55 years with Baby! (Fourth of a series)

Iranian state media and several international reports confirm that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in joint U.S.–Israeli strikes on February 28, 2026, along with senior officials and members of his family. Tehran immediately declared national mourning and vowed decisive retaliation, while leaders around the world urged restraint.

Death of Khamenei, Global Reactions, and the Deepening Geopolitical Fault Lines

Right after actress Anne Curtis and her family returned to the country from a disrupted vacation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), she immediately issued an official statement about Quezon City Fourth District Congressman Jesus “Bong” Suntay dragging her name in a privilege partisan speech at the congressional hearing on the charges of sedition, insurrection and political destabilization slapped on Vice President Sara Duterte recent impeachment case.

Anne Curtis condemns Bong Suntay; accepts apology from lawmaker’s wife, kids

I am 75 years old. Many of my contemporaries have passed on. Soon, I too will join them. At this stage of life, one’s concerns become simpler, but also more urgent. We think less about ourselves and more about what we leave behind.

Is this the best we can be?

When the war in Iraq came in the early 2000’s, I was just barely ten years old – not the age when you’d think kids would be interested in national issues.

What will we tell our kids?

The governor of Quezon does not need a presidential push to act promptly on the problems of fuel, energy and transportation in the coming days—which are expected by all Filipinos as the US-Israel duo’s war of aggression in Iran enters its second week.

Tan’s timely action & the Iran war  

There is a law that no legislative body of any government can amend. It is the “law of supply and demand”.

Oil Prices and the Law of Supply and Demand

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