I would yell at Varejao , but the soundwaves would knock him over <| sep |> Bird is turd . EDIT Bowled a good one . <| sep |> When the peso is strong against the dollar is there any difference for the common Filipino ? Do prices of imports or whatever goods actually drop ? Or do prices stay the same and profit margins are higher ? There are several ways that this affects the ' common Filipino ', so let me illustrate the most obvious one When the peso is strong against the dollar , it means importers can bring in gasoline for less . If a gallon of oil cost 1 US dollar it doesn ' t , but let ' s make the math simple , that would mean that gas would now be brought into the Philippines for P 50 , instead of the P 46 it was a few months back . The people importing that gas would then likely pass most of that extra 4 pesos cost onto consumers , which would mean that gas prices as local Petrons , Shells , etc . would increase . If you drive a car , that would mean your directly spending more money . However , many goods here are also generally transported by truck car whatever . That transport cost would also then increase . Let ' s say you usually buy rice at your local palengke . The cost to transport that rice from the rice fields in the provinces to wherever it ' s processed to the various rice dealerships to the palengke where you buy it would then increase because the cost of gas has increased . As such , the cost of rice would very likely increase as well . So yeah , there ' s a significant effect .