Seems like the Gruber deal is getting into hotter water and screwing the public again.

Congressman Karlo Nograles claims Grab is charging two (2) pesos per minute of travel time. Earlier, Senator Poe questioned why Grab is more expensive than Uber months before the merger deal actually came through.

Competition Commission wants Uber to keep operations, but Uber says they no longer have an office here. Their, probably, highest ranking official, former MMDA executive Yves Gonzales, already announced he is done with Uber.

LTFRB says they cannot keep Uber functioning because of this situation where there is no one responsible at Uber to begin with.

Meanwhile, three TNC’s who have applied for accreditation have yet to be moved on while another one is in hot water for operating without a go-signal from LTFRB.

So the riding public now gets the short end of the stick again because the Taxi drivers, who just recently, saw an upsurge of discipline and propriety, is going back to their former troublesome ways because they have no competition since many ride hailing patrons are wary of Grab’s charging system.

Why is it that after everyone else makes money – Uber and Grab and other TNC’s and even government agencies (remember that Uber paid LTFRB hundreds of millions last year) – the consumers themselves who are the base populations of these businesses end up holding the bad end of the rope.

We hope and we dream and, sometimes when a really good looking administration comes along, we support, but still those with the power and the money end up screwing us and our efforts.

Does not matter if the leaders are after our welfare, the system is so screwed against the public and in favor of the moneyed and powered and unscrupulous, that any effort to serve us gets waylaid in the end.

And the Uber/Grab (Gruber) deal shows us how it is done against us.