Afterthoughts
Another bright idea we cannot afford
By Sabrina Gacad, Walden BelloThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Washington-based Clean Technology Fund are poised to lend the Philippine government millions of dollars to fund the roll-out of 100,000 units of “energy effective electric vehicles” (EEEV), or alternative fuel vehicles, in the form of electric tricycles, or e-trikes, that will be handed to local government units for operation, from 2013 to 2016.
