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Mexico is Soon to be a Bigger ProblemAs if the constant flow of illegal aliens and drugs from Mexico were not already a huge problem for the United States, it is about to get worse. When Business Week took notice of Mexico’s dwindling oil reserves and failed national oil company, Pemex, in its May 5th edition, it signaled a problem whose significance is as great as the one involving an invading population.
It takes at least a decade between the discovery of new reserves and the infrastructure required to extract it, transport it to a refinery, and then distribute it to consumers. The May issue of Energy Tribune applauded the efforts of Mexico President Felipe Calderon to free up Pemex sufficiently to encourage exploration and production. “Under the reform, Pemex would be freed from stifling oversight,” but noted that, “Its approval is far from certain, and the proposal wouldn’t turn Pemex’s fortunes around any time soon.” Allan Wall, a U.S. citizen who lives in Mexico, writes some of the most penetrating and accurate commentaries about our neighbor to the south. In May, his Memo from Mexico, provided notice of a how bad the problem is and, while not saying so, also reminds us that America with its own vast known and undiscovered reserves of oil, has been wasting time and thwarting access to our oil resources. Wall begins by reminding us that Mexico is not “poor.” Its citizens are not starving and it’s home to at least ten billionaires, one of whom is the world’s second wealthiest man. It’s not that Mexico doesn’t have “vast economic potential,” but that, “It’s just been spectacularly mismanaged.” “Mexico has one of the world’s most closed petroleum markets, controlled by the state oil company, Pemex (Petroleos Mexicanos), which is protected from all competition.” It enjoys a legal monopoly on the exploration, processing, and sale of petroleum.” Pemex has long been the government’s piggy bank, providing up to 40% of the nation’s revenues. If any nation could be said to be “addicted” to oil, it’s Mexico. You would think that it would have taken steps to explore for more, but you would be wrong. You would be wrong if you thought it had bothered to build new refineries as well. The United States has 150 oil refineries (and needs more), but Mexico only has six and they are aging. Pemex has been spectacularly mismanaged. In this respect it is not much different from the rest of the world’s nationalized oil operations that include unstable governments like those in Africa and South American operations like Venezuela’s communist dictator. What this means is that the United States and other oil importing nations are literally at the mercy of governments that do not have to answer to their citizens. The United States has depended heavily on imports from Canada and Mexico, but the latter nation is a governmental basket case. With ownership of its oil written into its constitution, the prospect of privatizing its oil industry is off the table. Permitting other oil companies to explore for oil is difficult at best under these circumstances. It is a costly and high-risk enterprise at best. Any new discovery would cost in excess of a billion dollars. And you don’t hit oil every time you drill. If oil were not enough of a problem, the billions in drugs that are controlled by the Mexican cartels and purchased by Americans constitute an entire column by itself. We have a narco-army on our border that poses a major threat. Meanwhile, Mexico has been “solving” the problem of a lack of jobs and opportunities for its people by exporting them to America. The U.S. taxpayers are picking up the bill for these uninvited workers through our education, health, and legal systems to the tune of billions. Congress has been reluctant to close our border with Mexico and the three candidates seeking to be our next president have no plans to slow or stop the invasion. These are solvable problems if sensible people make sensible changes and encourage investment in their energy sector, but neither the United States, nor Mexico, appears ready to do that. Instead, out of sight of U.S. citizens and Congress, the two governments, in concert with Canada, are re-writing U.S. trade regulations to create a so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, undermining the sovereignty of all three nations. Earlier this month, a lot of people in America celebrated Cinco de Mayo, but a lot of them were not legal citizens. Don’t forget to visit my blog. I’m happy to say that it is gaining in popularity as its posts on everything from politics to national security, Islam to Israel, spotlight what is occurring in our world.
I suppose it’s because of all the endless blather about the Democrat candidates for the presidency, but I was reminded that America came within a hair’s breadth of having a total fraud, a charlatan called Al Gore as President of the United States. Every day and several times a day someone announces that everything on Earth is happening because of global warming, but had Al Gore been President, he probably would have been all too happy to ignore the Taliban, al Qaeda, and Saddam Hussein while insisting that we all stop using our cars, air conditioners, computers, television sets, and every other modern technology in order to insure that the oceans would not rise and flood the nation, the poles would not melt, and that we would not all die in a searing blast of heat.
In March I attended a conference on climate change sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a free-market, anti-regulation think tank out of Chicago that has long been one of the leaders in the fight against the global warming hoax. Its monthly publication, “Environmental & Climate News” ($36.00 subscription) is a treasure of truth on the topic. At the conference there were some 500 of the world’s top meteorologists, climatologists, economists, and other highly knowledgeable folk. The various speakers and seminars were unanimous in denouncing the global warming hoax. In May the National Climatic Data Center announced that, “The average temperature in April 2008 was 51.0 F. This was -1.0 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 29th coolest April in 114 years. The temperature trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit per decade.” We have not been passing through a period of increased warming. We are entering a period of increased cooling. So, if the global warming hoax isn’t dead, it is surely experiencing the throes of death. Now, because the charlatans realized a while back that it wasn’t happening, they changed the terminology to “climate change” in order to maintain their anti-population and anti-consumption agenda. The good news is that you do not have to be a PhD or even a college graduate to figure out that global warming wasn’t happening. In recent years all you had to do was listen to the weather reports. More snowfall in the winter, often stretching into early springtime? Oh yes. Glaciers growing along with sea ice? Oh yes. And when Al Gore blamed the cyclone that hit Myanmar on global warming, did you believe him? When he said there would be more hurricanes because of global warming, did you believe him? When, in fact, just about every single thing got blamed on global warming, did you begin to have doubts? Here’s what you have to keep in mind. The Democrat and Republican candidates for the presidency both talk the climate change line. They will both initiate or continue policies like “biofuels”, i.e., ethanol, in the name of climate change. The global warming hoax is already costing Americans billions in wasted research on the subject while the air is being poisoned with ethanol effluent and food prices are being driven higher by the demand to covert food into fuel. The last thing America needs to do is continuing down the global warming highway. The candidates and their parties have to be told there is no global warming and referencing climate change is like saying the sun rises in the morning and sets at night. It is natural. It is the way the galaxy works. What we all need is a lot less Al Gore and a whole lot more climate reality. Have you given a donation to the Center? I hope, especially in these times, you will share with us. $15.00 or more goes a long way around here to maintain our website and our communications programs. Thanks
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“A Slippery Moment for Mexican Oil” was the title, followed by “Output is tanking, but there’s fierce opposition to a plan that could reward Big Oil for helping find new reserves.” You have to read through most of the article before you discover that, “Oil output in Mexico, the world’s No. 6 producer of crude, is plummeting. At the Cantarell field, the country’s main source of oil, production is declining 15% annually…Unless new reserves are found quickly, Mexico—which accounts for 11% of U.S. oil imports—could stop exporting within a decade.”
If you don’t think that Al Gore should be in a rubber room somewhere, just read his book, “Earth in the Balance.” It does not matter that he got a Nobel Prize. Yasser Arafat, a vicious Palestinian terrorist, got a Nobel Prize for Peace as well. Gore split his Nobel with the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Earlier last week, a petition with the signatures of more than 31,000 scientists from around the world announced their opposition to the IPCC’s lies about a global warming. Over 9,000 of them were PhDs.