The robbery of the gasoline

National Mexico is the biggest importer of gasoline The robbery of the gasoline By: Carlos Damian December 15, 2012 The ‘big gasoline’ is a robbery to the town Mexico. - In the D.F. to fill a tank of Great gasoline of an automobile compact -Ford focus, for example -. At the beginning from Saturday it costs 36.33 dollars that are equal to nine days of minimum wage work (4.15 dollars) since it went up to 0.67 dollar the liter and to the car they fit it 55 liters. On the other hand a Mexican that lives in San Francisco, California, and that it wins wage mínimo-10 dollars per hour - he only requires to work five hours to pay 50 dollars that he needs to fill the tank of the same Ford Focus, to which they fit him 14.5 gallons. That is the enormous difference of prices that demonstrates that the gasoline of Pemex is more expensive than that of The States. That differential is only a face of the holdup against the Mexican consumers. Now the Great gasoline goes up 9 cents every month; until last year it increased 4 cents every month. Another aspect of the business is the import of gasoline. In accordance with a note published by Victor Cardos in La Jornada, last Thursday (2/2/12), Pemex is buying abroad half of the gasoline that we consume. Transnational as Shell, Exxon, the Venezuelan Sittgo (branch of PDVSA), and Valero concentrates around 75 percent of the purchases of gasoline that waste away in Mexico and for those that in 2011, 29 thousand 403 million dollars were paid, the figure but high in the history of the country. And in the five years and months of the six years they exceed 100 thousand million dollars. That is to say, president Calderon's government has transformed Mexico into one of the main importers of gasoline of the world. It is a pending task of investigating who the intermediaries. A third aspect of the holdup is the deliberate slowness in the construction of the new refinery of Tula. Up to now it is only an Mexican dream. In the budget of expenditures of this year (2012) there is a quantity of money with which they cover the appearances but it assures that the refinery will continue being executed; because it will only be as nightmare, since it left many indebted people, the federal government's deceit. The new prices for liter from Saturday 11 of February; Magna gasoline $9.91, Premium $10.69, and Diesel $10.27, of agreement with the Mexican Association of Managers Gasolineros. The president gives green light to U.S.A. to exploit petroleum in the Gulf Oil companies of The States and Pemex will explode for the first time in way combined locations of transborder hydrocarbons of the Gulf of Mexico, where they are important reservations of these transborder underground oilfields in the Pacific, and more specifically in the Gulf of Mexico, where they are reservations of importance for these countries, they agreed both countries. President Felipe Calderon, before the Ministry of State, Hillary Clinton, and the Ministry of the interior of The States, Ken Salazar, pointed out that with absolute respect to our sovereignty the negotiation of the agreement was made Mexico- U.S.A. Relative to transborder oilfields of hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Mexico. Previously the former president Ernesto Zedillo, in 2001, it had signed an agreement with The States to define the “hole of donut western” of the Gulf of Mexico, acquaintance also as “Western Polygon", with which a 10 year-old period was imposed so that no company of the two nations carried out exploration activities and exploitation. The day of the signature the federal leader sustained that, after he was taken the agreement with president Barak Obama in 2010 to work in this topic, he arrived to this agreement, with which finishes the denominated “effect straw", that is to say, the old fear that existed that the petroleum was extracted of the other side of the frontier, and legal certainty is given in a topic in which there were not clear rules. He specified that the agreement will be a correspondent to the Senate for its analysis. He explained that there are oilfields that intersect and anyone that is considered transborder it will be explored by both countries. It will also allow maximizing the recovery of hydrocarbons, to strengthen the energy security in both countries and Mexico will be able to increase the public revenues through Pemex. Hillary Clinton said that at the moment they are not necessarily divided in an orderly way in the marine frontier, it which root it could give to disputes of our countries and our companies, “if there is a oilfield that this to both sides (of the frontier), it would raise disputes. The agreement helps to prevent these disputes and to promote the sure, efficient, equal exploration, and the production along the oilfields." He specified that each country maintains its right of developing new projects, “but the agreement generates new opportunities, the American companies will be able to collaborate with Pemex, their homologous in Mexico". On the other hand the Ministry of Energy in Mexico, Jordy Herrera, precise it is required an unification agreement and a development plan to optimize the exploitation of the shared oilfields, that which will be subject to the approval of both governments. Also Ken Salazar (KS), it highlighted the agreement “it opens the doors to areas that were outside of our reach: the Gulf of Mexico, rich in resources, where there are 1.5 million acres (607 thousand hectares)", and they will be available for their exploitation. It aimed that a third part of the energy of The States comes from that line. KS added a clear process for the American companies and for Pemex; it is “a historical step to advance in our energy notebook". To The States it allows it to enlarge its work responsibly in the Gulf of Mexico and the companies will have more certainty to develop these resources, he said. The agreement was subscribed by the chancellor Patricia Espinosa and Hillary Clinton, with president Calderon and Kenneth Salazar like witness. (La Jornada, mundo, p. 2, February 21, 2011).