A world roiled by diesel

TO borrow a sports metaphor, the government’s decision to lift its idiotic freeze on land transport fares was a “Hail Mary” pass that saved most modes of land transport — jeepneys, provincial and city buses, etc. — from sure bankruptcy. The provincial bus operators who sent an SOS to the national government via an urgent appeal for fare adjustment were not exaggerating when they claimed that they will not survive without a fare hike. “When the cost of the stat