mtlogger
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moisheh wrote:Would you still RV in Mexico? Inflation would be rampant. Most prices would probably go up by 30 to 50%. The whole country would change. Comments?? Moisheh
You'd have daily riots down there if they raised prices as high as you suggest. Unlike the USA, other countries often riot over high prices. Maybe if we found the cajonnes to do so, the prices might retreat. Think about that.
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moisheh
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You can forget about fuel price retreating in the near future. Oil is over $142 and some economists are predicting $7.00 gas if oil hits $200. Although they had been saying that would happen in 2012 that has been revised to 2010. I think it will be sooner!
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qtla9111
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Crossed the border yesterday for the first time in almost a year. I was shocked at the gas prices.
Gas attendant in outside the Columbia bridge says the same big rig tractors come three and four times a day filling up. Everyone knows what is going on. Coming into SAT from the Southside of town all the car lots are full of diesel pickups cheap.
Sad situation. We definately will not be rving on the U.S. of the border this year. Seeing is believing. Listening to friends stories, my renters have three kids in different schools and activities. All those things are being cut out, the wife is taking the bus to night school.
The trip up was uneventful, great highway from Monterrey to Laredo, clear skies but we need rain.
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katevesco
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What is this world coming to? It used to be that when there was a world crisis the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This time round unless you are into oil or gold, even the rich are taking a kick. Not that I would know about being rich but it is just an observaton.
I used to own a fishing camp in Northern Ontario. We had a fantastic American business. Today there little traffic on the road particularly missing is the USA licence plates. Not only the price of gas but the US dollar has gone from being worth almost double to being on par. Canada is just as beautiful as ever but it is not the bargain it used to be. I honestly can see the demise of tourism as we know it in Cananda. Only the large outfits and big centers like Toronto will survive. Yes maybe a little riot or two would help. Something has to give and soon because the entire world is heading for economic desaster and we seem to be standing back and watching with our hands in our pockets. I guess when the pockets of the industial world are empty, we will see some collective action. Maybe.
What is the price of gas in Mexico?
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mexbungalows
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Magna costs about two-dollars-fifty-cents per gallon and diesel costs about two dollars twelve cents per gallon.
I live in Mexico. I can also tell you for a fact that just the tip of the iceberg has been felt in the USA regarding high fuel prices. When the full impact of high fuel prices hits I fully expect a three thousand point correction in the DJIA and recession that includes stagflation. It's going to be bad folks. Following a depression in the world economy comes a collapse of OPEC.
Unlike Los Estados Unidos Mexico has a bitterly contested three-way horse race in the PAN, PRD and PRI. Pemex is a pawn of the Mexican government and it can not act on its own. Any politician risks his career by advocating "world prices" for Mexican consumers. If you study Mexican history you will encounter a very famous "Grito" (Cry) "The Oil Is Ours!". Before jacking up the price of diesel and gasoline, Mexico would first impose rationing. This is the reason why gasolineras are referred to as "Franquicias" right on the sign.
Too many Americans think that the Mexican population is some sort of backwater community. However as California's debacle with unregulated electricity unfolded in 2001, Mexicans instantly reacted and quashed the Mexican government's plan to privatize la Comision Federal de Electricidad.
"When America catches a cold Mexico suffers pneumonia". The big risk is that a depressed American economy is going to severely impact Mexico. Someone remarked in another thread that RV'ers money is not significant; au contraire, every extraneous peso has a tremendous impact on a local economy. Unlike Cabo San Lucas or Cancun, where most of the money is exported, every centavo of RV'ers money is circulated in the community.
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moisheh
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mexbungalos:
Who has more impact on the Mexican economy: Tens of thousands of hotel rooms filled with gringos who buy all the trinkets, eat in all the restaurants and drink all the booze or a few thousand RV'rs. Look at all those airplanes that land filled with tourists. The billions of $ spent in Mexico certainly does not come from us. I bet the Federal Secretary of tourism has never been in an RV park and has never heard of a 5th wheel or a MH. Those billions of tourist $ provide employment for a lot of people. Our $ pale by comparison.
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One of the sons of the major property owners in Cancun and many other places in Mexico, is here in Tamarack, ID, spending millions and millions of his pesos($56+ million US dollars so far) on reviving the Tamarack Resort, so much of the tourist dollars that are spent in Mexico, do get returned to the US economy, in one form or another.
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lilhowlinwolf
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katevesco wrote:
I used to own a fishing camp in Northern Ontario. We had a fantastic American business. Today there little traffic on the road particularly missing is the USA licence plates.
Ditto on the fishing camp. I gave up trying to lure Americans here, and instead advertised in Europe and they've picked up the slack. Now my son and two daughters are running the biz - with success!
Quote:What is the price of gas in Mexico? Kate
Gas is cheap in Mexico & Venezuela b/c they are nationalised. In Ven it's 3 cents/ltr for gas and 5.5 cents/ltr for diesel.
Here in Iceland it is $3.55/ltr
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The Texan wrote:One of the sons of the major property owners in Cancun and many other places in Mexico, is here in Tamarack, ID, spending millions and millions of his pesos($56+ million US dollars so far) on reviving the Tamarack Resort, so much of the tourist dollars that are spent in Mexico, do get returned to the US economy, in one form or another.
Just read in the WSJ the other day, that several wealthy Mexican entreprenurs are pooling their money to buy back real estate in Texas. Mostly homes in foreclosure and land - lots of land. They want it back - take it from me sell it to them!
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There are very few places in the US where you can ride your toys on the beach. Anyone who has ridden on the beach in Baja or on the Golfo side of Mexico has been spoiled. In the US West coast we have only been able to do this in Oceano Dunes CA & the Oregon Dunes outside of Florence, Or., there may be other legal beach riding venues but I am not aware of them.
Would we continue to camp in Mexico if fuel prices were the same as in the US.
ABSOLUTELY
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