Samie Lim
Filipino
President, Philippine Chamber
of Commerce and Industry
(PCCI)

PCCI has a very strong advocacy on the environment. One is biofuel, using less of imported oil that limits the supply
of that. We have to look for other complementary products. As a country, we are so blessed with the availability of alternative
source of oil. As a matter of fact at the recently concluded
summit, there was a committee formed to look at biofuel and go into this. So this is not just a Philippine effort but an Asean effort as well.

Edgar O. Chua
Filipino
Country chairman
Shell Philippines

We fully support that law es­pecially the ethanol component of it; but we have some concerns on the biodiesel component. Because the CME or the coconut methyl ester additive has not been, in our view, fully tested in terms of use. I think that’s the same position taken by the automotive compa­nies. Because ester comes from different vegetable oils. In Europe, they have rapeseed, palm, coconut... Here, they are saying that coconut is the most perfect addi­tive for diesel. Well, it maybe so but it has not been fully tested. Although they have done some tests, but we want to have more testing. Whereas with ethanol, it’s the same everywhere; its a product that is almost a standard every­where.