Mexico - #1 US oil supplier

[sandnsea]

March 2006 Import Highlights: Released on May 16, 2006

The top sources of US crude oil imports for March were Mexico (1.697 million barrels per day), Canada (1.693 million barrels per day),

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html

The #1 exporter of oil to the US should not be a poor country. Where is the oil money going? Corporations. Which is why immigration is a labor exploitation issue, here, there, everywhere.

[IselaB]

1. Mexicans are responsible for high oil prices

http://www.udargo.com/mub/2006/05/dear_voter.html

[sandnsea]

3. lol, that's a good one

We should be tying the two together. It's all about the cheap labor with these people, I don't know when the working people of this country are going to get it.

[PA Democrat]

8. Nice racist, hate-filled link

for the campaign site of a Republican candidate. Did you forget the sarcasm emoticon or do you subscribe to the views of that Nazi wannabe?

[IselaB]

9. I guess I figured

anybody who read it would have enough sense to see it's a parody.

What's wrong with everybody today?

[PA Democrat]

10. Sorry.

Sometimes comedy is too close to the reality of what is going on in this country. I listened to a local right-wing talk show today, and there were callers who made dead serious comments just like those contained in that parody. Hearing people actually make such hateful remarks has apparently damaged my sense of humor today.

Peace.

[IselaB]

12. No problem.

I guess its funny because its not far from the truth.

[Inland]

17. It's a parody.

The sentence noting that Katrina came from the Gulf of Mexico should have tipped you off.

[FyurFly]

2. Vicente “Sly as a“ Fox

n/t

[MADem]

4. Don't piss off your best dealer, Porgie! That addiction is hell! n/t

[rodeodance]

5. wonder if we tipped the globe either north or south, the oil would flow vi

a gravity to the US????????? te he.
It does seem the US missed the bus.

[rodeodance]

6. we have barly heard the word oil/gas since immigration issue came

on board last Friday with bush saying he wanted air time.

[High Plains]

7. In Mexico, a state-owned monopoloy, Pemex, controls the oil.

Mexico has huge foreign indebtedness, which is where many of the revenues vanish. And yes, there is doubtless corruption. But Mexico, with more than 100 million people (just counting the ones still there)has not been able to use its oil wealth to improve the lot of average people. I guess it's easier when you're a desert sheikdom with only a few million people.

As for that first reply about Mexico setting high oil prices, that is a sarcastic joke.

[sandnsea]

13. They contract with nulti-national corporations

like Exxon. Control production to control price. And the sheikdoms aren't passing along the wealth either.

[Buxtehude]

11. Worker manipulation

Is not indigenous to just migrant workers. It's one thing to know the problem, but what's the solution?

[sandnsea]

14. Stand up for global labor rights

For all workers, all over the world. Stop letting them pit us against each other.

[Buxtehude]

18. United We Stand, Divided We Fall

[demosincebirth]

15. Mexico needs an honest to goodness "socialist government"

that will work to bring the poor up to higher standard than where they are now.

They fought a revolution almost a century ago to rid themselves of the same situation that they are living under now. They need to rid themselves (again) of the white ruling class that has been in power for the last 60 years and bring back a more socialistic government where the wealth of the country will be distributed equally among the citizens.

[newyawker99]

20. Hi Buxtehude!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Nikia]

16. Because Mexico is an oligiarchy

The wealth disparity between the rich and the poor is huge. There are some very wealthy people in Mexico who care nothing about helping the poor.

[Buxtehude]

19. Keeping the citizenry ignorant

is the root of the problem.