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Friday, July 26, 2019

California Had Jerry Brown, Bullet Train; Mexico Has AMLO, Refinery -- July 26, 2019

Link here.

I've followed this story fairly closely. Two facts I did not know:
  • Rocio Nahle, who became energy minister under Mexico’s new government in December, thinks the country can replicate Reliance Industries Ltd’s Jamnagar refining compound. But there are a few snags.
    • Mexico is proposing to build a new refinery for $8 billion in three years, the amount of time and money it took Reliance to complete just a single phase of its complex. And Mexico plans to do so without using private funds, creating a strain on public coffers and calling into question the efficiency of a state-owned facility when the country’s six refineries are already losing more money the more fuels they produce.
  • Mexico’s own refineries are operating at about 35% of their capacity because Pemex hasn’t had the funds to invest in them, making the country reliant on foreign fuels to meet domestic demand. About 65% of the gasoline that Pemex sells in Mexico is imported, mostly from the U.S.
Rocio Nahle, I guess, is to AMLO what Rocinante was to Don Quixote.

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