Posted on 06/17/2011 6:49:08 AM PDT by thackney
Increasingly sophisticated thieves stole thousands of barrels per day of oil products from Mexico’s state-owned oil company in the first four months of 2011, thefts worth about $250 million, the company’s director said Thursday.
Those thefts amounted to almost one million barrels in the first four months of the year, a level almost 50 percent more than what thieves stole in the same period of 2010, according to the Petroleos Mexicanos oil company, also known as Pemex.
Pemex director Juan Jose Suarez Coppel said the stolen fuel was the equivalent of 100 tanker trucks per day.
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Hoised by their own petard ;-)
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This could not have been done without the collusion of bureacrats and union bureaucrats within Pemex. Bribery and graft riddles Pemex from top to bottom.
The first line of the "Marines' Hymn" is:
From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli..
My beloved Corps may soon find itself revisiting those sites of long ago glory..
Thief in mexico. Say it ain’t so.
Yeah....
a crumbling state on our southern border and we are across the world in afghanistan, pakistan, libya, not too mention germany and japan. We should take over Mexico and straighten it out and send all the illegals home.
What did they do, tap into pipelines? I can’t imagine that much oil disappearing in trucks without the entire facility getting a chunk of hush money.
It is an environment of their own doing, encouraging citizens to steal from the US and bring their sloth here. Why are they complaining that these very citizens are stealing from them?
Yes.
One of my old taglines was “Zachary Taylor should have finished the job”.
And the demo-crats and some Republicans allow these fine upstanding crooks to cross our borders daily. Some even want to make them citizens. What a frigging joke these people have become.
My father’s hired hand from Durango, MX was just back from his hometown and was telling us last week about this..... According to him, there was a specially designed pipeline that was diverted off of the “main” line..... My father and I thought this was a bunch of huey when he was telling us this.....
He also said it is a big big mess down there. He no longer travels the 2 lane roads in fear of robbers and instead takes the toll roads to his hometown only driving during the day. While in downtown Durango one day at a shopping mart, he parked his pickup and returned to find all 4 wheels stolen. It took him a week (at least that was the excuse that he used to explain why he didn’t show up for work) to track down his tires and get them back?????
Personally, I used to travel extensively in Monterrey and Chihuahu for biz purposes.... NO MORE....
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