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Mexico bans US gasoline. US sends gas tankers anyways. Cartels force US gas tankers to dump. Tex@$$ "representatives" shed tears for "energy" (www.woodtv.com)
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Back in October - Mexican official confirms cartel gunmen forced a dozen tanker trucks to dump gasoline at gunpoint

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U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, also signed the letter, which accuses Mexico of trying to “nationalize its economy and renege on its commitments in the USMCA as a means of empowering its failing state-owned petroleum company.”

ohnoes Nationalizing it's economy and thwarting our not so covert attempts at undermining it! The horrors!

liberty-weeping What about the spirit of the US Mexico Canada Agreement ?!

USMCA more like US Marine Corp Agreement bougie-wink

Plus, gasoline is far more expensive in Mexico, by about 125% in some instances.

Also Californians Flock to Mexico for Cheap Gas as Prices Rise to $6 in State

Californians are traveling to Mexico for cheaper gas, as fuel prices surge following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. who-did-this

Awwwww is Mexico kind of immune to your sanctions shitfuckery becauss it nationalized it's oil and gas? fuck-around

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[-] envis10n@hexbear.net 89 points 7 months ago

Lol imagine nationalizing a widely used commodity to help manage inflation of costs being a bad thing.

Texas: it's not fair! They are doing something that isn't making massive profits!

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago

"Make necessities cheaper? Literally 1984!"

[-] envis10n@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

Like shit, fossil fuels suck because they aren't renewable. But they are unfortunately a reality of the present and loads of people rely on it atm. How can a country just sit back and let all of that profit go to waste?! I bet they don't even profit off of insulin!

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago

Mexico should be prioritizing real pressing issues like porn and trans people pissing, not gasoline prices

[-] timicin@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Texas: it’s not fair! They are doing something that isn’t making massive profits!

i like how they're sending in their tejano shills to complain about it instead of the majority white leadership; i bet cuellar wouldn't do it anyways if it he didn't already know he's a useful idiot for these people.

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 74 points 7 months ago

Cartel members force illegal gasoline importers to dump their gas directly into a field and Texas representatives start screaming about theft, lmao

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 38 points 7 months ago

It’s like the British screaming when their opium got confiscated even though they were told it’s not allowed into China

[-] Mehrunes_Laser@hexbear.net 67 points 7 months ago

big-honk what were the tankers doing there, if mexico banned them?

[-] star_wraith@hexbear.net 65 points 7 months ago

I totally forgot that Trump just renamed NAFTA so he could take credit for something.

[-] Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 7 months ago

Well, it's so you can sing "IT'S FUN TO STAY AT THE US...M...C..A!"

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 38 points 7 months ago

Nah, it's just so it wouldn't be called Canada US and Mexico deal, which it was rumored Trump wanted it called. But unfortunately we were not allowed to live in the world where "Trump signs CUM Act" becomes a legitimate headline.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 11 points 7 months ago

Not sure why they didn't call it USMECA. Mexico's the only one getting one letter, and I don't see why that would be except for making sure Mexico knows its place or something like that. It's more pronounceable as well.

[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 55 points 7 months ago

wtf I love cartels now

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

We should all get together and set up a trap house to get the cartel leaders attentions

[-] jack@hexbear.net 51 points 7 months ago

Why was the cartel involved in this? Why were its members seemingly doing as the Mexican gov wanted?

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 39 points 7 months ago

My ~~guess~~ hope is a general "Fuck America" sentiment

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

CIA has been too focused on Israel and Ukraine to be delivering weapons and drugs on time

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Maybe the assets imbedded in the cartels are legitimately looking at Ukraine and Israel and saying “maybe working for Mexico wouldn’t be so bad”.

Edit: after reading the article it feels more like the CIA telling cartels to ramp up anti Americans activities in order to justify actions against them.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago

They want a 19th century trade war so bad rn.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 7 months ago

It's time for traditional reelection war next year, Ukraine proven their ability to project force seems to be lacking, Mexico it is then.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

All I want for election season is a US army dealt a defeat on the field.

[-] wahwahwah@hexbear.net 44 points 7 months ago

Ugh now conservatives are gonna bang the drum even harder for a war with Mexico. The scare mongering over fent is gonna be insufferable.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

im rather fascinated how american companies thought they could ship & sell petroleum at a profit to a country that has done its own production and refining since 1938

like do they also ship timber to canada and try to force them to buy it? lmao (though Canada's timber is private, so it could very well be being tendered at inflated costs an american firm could undercut, capitalism is the most rational organization of resources)

[-] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 36 points 7 months ago

canada steals timber off indigenous lands and undercuts the americans. We've had many disputes with the yanks over it because its impossible to compete with theft.

[-] renatadeux@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

the most reliable tendency in any inter Anglo conflict is a light speed race to the bottom

[-] thebartermyth@hexbear.net 34 points 7 months ago

Who could have predicted this?

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago

Did they dump it onto the ground or did they have some container they put the oil into?

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago

the Sinaloan EPA doesn’t fuck around.

[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

And is there a reason they didn't just steal the gas? Like can't they just steal the trucks and have some extra gas for free? So much better than dumping it

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

When will Mexico ban America

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.

[-] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago

Cardenas would be proud

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the [ground], and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the... fuel.

[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

heartbreaking worst criminal organization you know does a good thing

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