As fuel prices spike, Filipinos navigate growing cost-of-living crisis from Iran war

Manila: As he leaves home to start work at 7 a.m., Joseph Platilla no longer expects his wife and children to wait up for him to return. They may already be asleep while he is still driving passengers around Manila to earn his daily wage. The change in his family’s routine started soon after the US and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28. The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which most of Asia’s energy supply transits, caused sharp rises in the cost of petrol, gas and diesel.

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