Since the cost of the diesel fuel (also gasoline and airplane fuels) is continually increasing due to the cunning price manipulations of the oil cartels, refiners, dealers, and their stockholders, thereby causing hundreds of passengers in, for instance, Southern Leyte and Leyte to patronize the less expensive but slower ships departing from Bato, Hilongos, Baybay or Ormoc City to Cebu City, we need the alternative, renewable and cheaper fuel to power the hovercraft. The present operators of passenger hovercraft utilize the diesel fuel to power their air cushion vehicles (ACV). Such imported and expensive fuel is the # reason why the SuperCat and WaterJet do not operate anymore in Maasin City, Surigao City and other cities in the Visayas and Northern Mindanao. Capable of using the biodiesel, the hovercraft is also available in lightweight composite materials which reduce drag and/or save fuel consumption.

It is now a Philippine law - Philippine Biofuels Act of 2006 - that the fuel refiners and producers must gradually increase the percentage of their fuel productions to the alternative, renewable, and cleaner fuels. We have our country’s top expert and U.N. consultant on biodiesel development and production, Dr. Rico O. Cruz. You may link to his company's EcoEnergy International website for more information at: http://ecoenergyinternational.com/ or http://www.7th-mil.org/Alternative_fuels.html. Based in the U.S.A., Dr. Cruz and company "have partnered with the following countries: Australia, Azerbaijan, Belize, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Germany, Ghana, India, Paraguay, Philippines, Russia, Turkey, Uganda, United States, and Vietnam" to assist them in the pioneering development and production of biodiesel fuels.

In Southern Leyte, we desperately need to open the daily hovercraft services from Maasin City to Cebu City. From Cebu City in addition to Maasin City, the passenger hovercraft are the best type of sea transportation to Surigao City, Butuan City, Cagayan de Oro City and vice versa. There are thousands of residents in certain towns in Central Philippines without their own piers or seaports that would surely prefer to ride the convenient, fast, safe and very efficient hovercraft for them to do business in Cebu City.

If you search Maasin City through Google Earth, you will notice that Maasin is strategically located to the big cities in Northern Mindanao. To save time for the travelers from Iligan City, Ozamiz City, Oroquieta City, Dapitan and other big cities and towns in northwestern Mindanao that are going to Metro Manila, the passengers on hovercraft can fast speed to Maasin City. From Maasin's big and clean bus station, they can transfer to the 5 or more modern and fully air-con buses - the lowest cost to travel by land to Metro Manila - which run daily via Leyte's capital, Tacloban City, then continue to ride the bus through the entire Samar Island up to its northernmost point, and take the ferry to Albay in Southern Luzon, and finally from Albay to Metro Manila.

We have contacted recently the top passenger hovercraft operators in Western Europe and invited them to consider investing in Central Philippines and Northern Mindanao. The European passenger hovercraft companies have responded with positive interests; they are studying the matter with their top management staff. We do not have to wait for them to make the decisions for us. However, they have many years of experience in passenger hovercraft transportation which we desperately need.

With the help of the "people's power" from the Overseas Filipino Workers and the Filipino citizens and residents in foreign countries, we could make our plan sooner than expected. The Overseas Filipino Workers and former Filipino citizens living in other countries are remitting several billions in European Unions' euros and U.S. dollars to their families and loved ones in the Philippines. Their remittances are the "secrets" to our growing economy! We have the real "people's power" to counter-attack against the oil cartels, refiners, gas dealers, and their stockholders that are making us slaves as a result of their price manipulations of the gasoline and diesel fuels! Therefore, we would like to invite the Overseas Filipino Workers and Filipinos that are citizens and residents in foreign countries to invest in hovercraft transportation and the alternative fuels production.

The Biofuels Law or R.A. 9367 is investor-friendly. "It provides tax incentives and financial assistance to encourage investments in biofuels. The tax incentives include a 0% specific tax on local or imported biofuel component per liter of fuel. Another is the exemption of the sale of raw material used in the production of biofuels from the Value Added Tax.... On the one hand, RA 9367 mandates that the Development Bank of the Philippines, Land Bank of the Philippines, Quedancor and other government financial institutions extend financing to those engaged in the production, storage, handling and transport of biofuel and biofuel feedstock, and the blending of biofuels with petroleum."

If we want to be really free from the imported oil's 100-year slavery, there is always a way. We have our country's #1 expert and U.N. consultant on biodiesel fuel. We have the inventor of 30-year plus old water-powered car. Our 7107-island country is surrounded with waters. We can in the future tap the unlimited tidal power and the undersea current. For example: Under the Liloan bridge in Southern Leyte, between Limasawa Island and Tangka-an Point in Padre Burgos, and in San Juanico Strait between Leyte and Samar islands to generate electricity for the entire Visayas and Mindanao regions! We have the existing geothermal electric plants in Central Visayas and Southern Luzon as well as the wind-driven electric generators in Northern Luzon. We have the tropical sunlight to charge the solar cells and the deuterium ... courtesy of our Heavenly Father and Savior - Christ or Yahshua!

Let us hope and pray that the very good local and foreign investors would join hands together to assist us with 2 or more daily trips from Southern Leyte to Cebu City using the new 130 or 180-passenger hovercraft and other commercial models. More importantly, we need the hovercraft before another gigantic natural disaster will, not if, hit our province and/or country in the next few months and years! The foreign hovercraft operators' experience and investment can surely assist us to improve and increase our economic and tourism developments as well as our living standards. In return, we need to do our part by supporting, cooperating, advertising, promoting, and patronizing the proposed, very efficient, very safe and very fast hovercraft transportation services in Visayas and Northern Mindanao regions!