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by Rey Anthony Chiu

Over complaints lodged by drivers and operators against the government’s fuel subsidy “flop”, Energy Undersecretary Jose Layug Jr. candidly admitted computer glitchs that’s stalling the implementation of the Pantawid Pasada Progam.

But he continued on, most of the cards released indeed were loaded with gas allocations, which some drivers used to gas up without telling their operators the card has been loaded.

At the forum held at the People’s Mansion Friday, Layug, who came upon the invitation of Bohol government to meet with fuel industry players here said most of those who complained about the “cards without the promised loads” turned out to be cards swiped by other drivers.

The young energy undersecretary said the cards’ swiping are computer recorded.

Because of this, “We will know if the cards were loaded and used”, he explained.

And we also found out that those who complained did not know that we have records of the swiping details when somebody used the card.

“We know of some jeepney units having at least two drivers who take turns in operating the unit,” he said.

As it came out, one driver used the whole value of the card and left the other driver nothing but a card without ant value then.

The Department of Energy, who implemented the government one-time fuel subsidy of P1,050 to public transport, used a system where the usage of the fuel cards, bearing the plate number, routes, and name of the franchisee traces a trail back to the DOE.

The trail would also record the time the cards were swiped and the gasoline refilling station’s point of sale identification number.

Usec. Layug however said that if, indeed cards were really not loaded, the problems usually are that documentary requirements were not fully complied.

He said an operator will have to produce the vehicle’s Official Receipt, Certificate of Registration, Certificate of Franchise and other requirements before the DOE can load the cards.

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