everymilesamemory
Everywhere Around the United States
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We plan on staying close to the southern border this summer so come next winter, we wont have to make that grueling trek all the way from the Far Mid-West to get back to where the fuel is cheap, the weather's always warm and the food is outstanding.
That and cheap tequila
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lilhowlinwolf
MB/Pan/Iceland
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I'm just going to fly back down next fall. It's already cheaper than driving.
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mexbungalows
las peñas, michoacan, mexico
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For around the first twenty miles or so south of the border fuel prices are much higher than they are further down. The joint venture refinery in Texas is a reality and from that refinery comes every last drop of Mexico's red pump premium fuel and about thirty percent of the green pump Magna Sin regular. All of the UBS ultra-low sulfur diesel originates there too. As of right now, only Mexican states bordering the USA have UBA diesel. Pemex has been saying that it cannot even start supplying low sulfur diesel before 2010 and that isn't a promise.
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bilmo
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We're going to the west coast for the summer and will head south to Mexico in the fall. Will cross as soon as we can into Mexico to travel to San Miguel and then Monterrey before heading back to AL to see family, using Mexican diesel mostly to go from the west coast to the east coast.
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moisheh
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mexbungalos:
Where did you see UBS Diesel in Mexico? I have seen the signs for UBS gasoline at many Pemex's but never for diesel. The diesel in Mexico is not even LSD. As far as I am concerned I wish it would stay that way. Both of our diesels run just great on the Mexican product. Something that a lot of people do not understand is that Pemex is a money losing venture. Hard to believe that drilling and refining oil is a non profit venture!! Pemex is probably the most corrupt and inefficient corporation in the world. This will never change unless they denationalize. I think that a bill was defeated on that matter just a few weeks ago. In the meantime they continue to subsidize the losses at Pemex. Raising the price of fuel to world prices would result in a revolution. There is no way that a person making $100 a week can afford $4.00 gasoline. Mexico's transportation costs are already the highest in N.A.. Just imagine what $4.30 diesel would do to the economy. As usual it is politics that prevents Pemex from being a world class oil producer.
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drtee
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moisheh wrote:mexbungalos:
Something that a lot of people do not understand is that Pemex is a money losing venture. Hard to believe that drilling and refining oil is a non profit venture!! Pemex is probably the most corrupt and inefficient corporation in the world. This will never change unless they denationalize. I think that a bill was defeated on that matter just a few weeks ago. In the meantime they continue to subsidize the losses at Pemex. Raising the price of fuel to world prices would result in a revolution. There is no way that a person making $100 a week can afford $4.00 gasoline. Mexico's transportation costs are already the highest in N.A.. Just imagine what $4.30 diesel would do to the economy. As usual it is politics that prevents Pemex from being a world class oil producer.
Moisheh
PEMEX is the only oil producer in the world to never make a profit. PEMEX is a haven for many Mexicans with influence and they live like no one else in Mexico. They have their own resorts, their own hotels, their own hospital and healthcare programs. Profit doesn't enter into the picture. Real competition doesn't exist and there's basically one fixed price all over the country, except in the "frontera" along the US border, where it is usually a bit more expensive to keep us gringos from crossing to buy gas.
The Mexican government supports low prices for diesel fuel in order to keep the price of foodstuffs down for the poor of Mexico. I remember back in the 70's that they sold it for twelve cents per gallon! Folks here on the border with older diesel trucks regularly travel across to refill. Hey, $2.00 beats the heck out of $4.35, which is what I've seen here this week.
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moisheh
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drtee: One othet thing that should be mentioned is the corrupt unions at Pemex. Hoffa had nothing on these guys. There are thousands of employees who never go to work. But they receive full pay checks. These lucky fellows lost their positions due to technology. But the union contracts say they cannot be retrained to work in other areas. The politicians are afraid to do battle with the unions. And the beat goes on. The billions lost by Pemex would be enough to put in place a proper Social support system for the population.
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rocmoc
Tucson, AZ/Mexico
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We crossed over today and filled up the Ram with that beautiful Mexican diesel in Nogales. Today's price was 5.79 which works out to $2.00 a gal with the conversion rate we get. We just cancelled our USA trip and we are adding more and longer Mexico trips. Lucky for us we are just a few miles from the border. When we relocated here, we knew the Mexican meds. would come in handy. The fuel issue is icing on the cake. Funny thing, the last station before you cross at Mariposa on the USA side has the lowest diesel in the state a $3.99 / gal. We paid $4.32 / gal last week in California.
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Mr Brew-Ski
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Spent last weekend camping at Baja Seasons CG south of Rosarito,Baja Ca. Landed a beachfront site for about $48 a night. Topped off my diesel tank on the way in, cost about $2.08 gallon. Downside, on the rebound it took us 4 hours & 5 minutes to cross the border @ San Ysidro Sunday afternoon. I think I'll limit my future Mexico crossing to "off" hours.
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Vagabundo
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Silver: You quote "Factoids", and yet you imply that fuel prices in Mexico vary in relation to the distance from the border.
In fact one of the things we all like about fuel prices in Mexico is that the price is the same - all over the country!
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