Posted on 02/16/2021 1:51:11 PM PST by mykroar
If President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was looking for ammunition in his quest to cut Mexico’s reliance on foreign energy, it would be hard to top the electricity blackouts affecting the north of the country.
Mexico reported 4.77 million homes and businesses losing power Monday after imports of natural gas from the U.S. were curbed, knocking power stations offline.
The disruption is a spillover of the worst electricity crisis in recent history in the U.S., where freakishly cold weather cut oil and gas output. Mexico has restored 80% of electricity in northern states and expects power to fully return Wednesday or Thursday, Lopez Obrador said at a press briefing Tuesday. But he didn’t miss the opportunity to make a political point.
The blackout is a reminder that Mexico should become energy independent, as prices for imported gas that Mexico uses to generate power spiked 5,000% amid the crisis, Lopez Obrador said.
“What is the lesson in all of this? We must produce,” he said, referring to gas, but also to gasoline and diesel. “We are seeing that we must seek to be self-sufficient.”
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
In other words, sending more over the border to lighten the load at home.
Mexico is not going to enjoy having a third world neighbor to the north...
He needs to go green. We should sell him some wind turbines once they thaw out.
Just wait until Americans storm the border trying to get to relatively free and prosperous Mexico. Fortunately for them, we are too fat to climb walls.
You would think Mexico would start fracking their brains out and have oodles of natural gas as a result.
I think the headline might be a bit different if PDJT hadn’t been cheated out of his second term.
Mexico Blames U.S. as Energy Crisis Spills Across the Border.
Ok who took the jumper cables return them and no questions asked.
Perhaps they should invade ...
I don’t generally buy into the blame game when it comes to
putting down the United States, but I’m going to have to
agree with Mexico on this one.
There was some serious screw up on this one.
Why are they connected to us in the first place?
Mexico is warm! Mexico is sunny! Mexico is like this old Song! (Modified by me) Remember this?
Mañana
Peggy Lee
The window she is broken and the cold is comin’ in
If someone doesn’t fix it I’ll be frozen in my skin
But if we wait a day or two the cold may go away
And we don’t need a window on such a sunny day
(Mañana, mañana, mañana is soon enough for me)
Fortunately for them...there are a lot of cartel people protecting their territory! Look what California Man has done to Texas already! It usually takes a cartel at least a generation of free range to cause that much destruction!
Don’t they have a lot of sunlight in warm Mexico? Move our windmill electric generation there. That’s the solution!
When there is NO MORE natural gas-—what will Mexico use then?
Biden’s halt on fossil fuels will also affect Mexico.
Ask yourself WHAT lubrication those wind turbines use.
What is the source of those lubricants???
I bet fossil fuels......
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