{"id":76875,"date":"2026-03-31T11:49:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/31\/manilas-transport-workers-struggle-to-make-ends-meet-as-philippines-feels-force-of-oil-crisis"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:49:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:49:55","slug":"manilas-transport-workers-struggle-to-make-ends-meet-as-philippines-feels-force-of-oil-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76875","title":{"rendered":"Manila\u2019s transport workers struggle to make ends meet as Philippines feels force of oil crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines is uniquely exposed to the surging oil price caused by the war in the Middle East. The government is facing protests and widespread anger<\/p>\n<p>Jayson Naga is a tricycle taxi driver on the streets of Manila. In a normal day he brings home P500 (US$8) to feed his four children. But these days he is struggling. He requires four litres of gasoline a day to ferry his passengers around the city and the 60% surge in fuel prices has wiped out nearly a third of his take home pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf gas prices go up any further, there will be nothing left for us,\u201d he told the Guardian. His family\u2019s only luxury \u2013 driving to air-conditioned malls on weekends to escape the heat \u2013 was the first to go.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/31\/manilas-transport-workers-struggle-to-make-ends-meet-as-philippines-feels-force-of-oil-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines is uniquely exposed to the surging oil price caused by the war in the Middle East. The government is facing protests and widespread angerJayson Naga is a tricycle taxi driver on the streets of Manila. In a normal day he brings home P500&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,449,55,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-oil","category-philippines","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76876,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76875\/revisions\/76876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}