Oh, the Irony: Mexico Moves to Cut off
Cheap Gas as Americans Cross Border to
Escape Biden Price Hike
Red State,
by
Mike Miller
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
4/4/2022 2:33:37 AM
This report might not reach the level of “Babylon Bee” satire, but it sure pegs the hell out of the needle on the irony meter. As the Biden Border Crisis continues to worsen, and the most inept president in modern history and his war on energy have contributed to increasing gas prices, virtually from the beginning of his presidency, Mexico would like a word: Our southern neighbor is not happy with Americans crossing the border in search of lower prices at Mexican gas stations.
That statement alone is ironic on multiple levels, but it gets “better.”
As reported by Reuters on Saturday,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 4/4/2022 6:15:50 AM (No. 1118780)
Biden’s handlers have succeeded beyond anything I can imagine, turning this once great country into a hellish dystopia! God help us!
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Who is running this government ? Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice? They are either plain evil or really stupid! Evil AND stupid is really scary!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/4/2022 6:50:48 AM (No. 1118792)
We could probably be a member of OPEC if we drilled in all the places we could pull oil from. You know? Like Mexico is.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
john56 4/4/2022 9:21:57 AM (No. 1118909)
It would have been interesting to learn what the difference in price was (prior to the Mexican government's action) on the price of gasoline in San Diego and Tijuana. The cost of buying and/or servicing-recharging an electric vehicle has nothing to do with the price of gas in Mexico .
A friend of mine with years of experience in the power industry pointed out to me a couple things.
First, electricity is not generated by leiprichauns counting their pot of gold coins at the end of the rainbow, but usually using fossil fuels and perhaps some un-reliable and expensive forms of "clean energy."
Second, if you think about how people use electricity -- you get home about 5-7 pm from work. You come in your house, turn on the AC, turn on a whole bunch of lights, appliances and such -- which is why early evening is when peak energy consumption occurs. Oh yeah, and now add to that plugging in your Mayor Pete-mobile (electric car). By the way, most of those renewable forms of energy usually aren't available at that time -- and the technology and cost to "store" that power is unavailable and at this time, theoretically unfeasible and dangerous. Think cruise ship size batteries holding very unstable power (boom!).
Who's building all the new power generating plants to handle this demand? (Crickets chirp in background.)
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/4/2022 11:05:29 AM (No. 1119030)
Same thing happened in the '70s. Pemex stations in Juarez were being run dry by Texas plates crossing to save money on fill-ups. So, the Mexican government slapped on a cap for non-Mexican cars, a few gallons. That stopped the run pretty quickly.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 4/4/2022 12:29:40 PM (No. 1119139)
How much does gas cost in Mexico?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 4/4/2022 12:35:36 PM (No. 1119145)
RE #4. Ask your friend about power use at night, too. A friend who retired as a powerplant engineer for a local utility taught me several things, like you wrote about.
One is that home use of electricity, other than peak use on hot summer days for AC in the south, is only a fraction of energy used by industry. One of the reasons that we haven't had to build as many new power plants as we normally would have is the closing down of most of our factories. That freed up a lot of generation capacity which has been re-used for homes and as many new homes were built, new generation capacity wasn't needed as much because of closed factories.
And.....when do those miracles of "free power" (the most expensive kind), the windmills, mostly make power? At night, when it is NOT needed, but it MUST be purchased by the utility companies....BY LAW, and even at ridiculously high rates, when they do not want it or need it. They are forced to buy it, and sell it to you at very high rates.
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