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117 comments on Trouble South of the Border -- Mexico's Oil Production

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Starship Trooper on July 10, 2006 - 5:35pm

I wish I could say "it's hard to believe how vulnerable we are" but time and again we keep seeing the signs of how close to the edge we really are. I, too waited, but also stated for those willing to listen that even if the find approached what was announced it still wouldn't change anything. We were just as vulnerable if not moreso by counting on this find as a salvation to our predicament.

"I told you so" won't be a very comforting statement from those of us whom have warned of the coming peril. For the most passionate of critics and nonbelievers I only say that they will be "surprised" in a way that I am not. It won't make life any easier but I won't being dealing with my own state of "surprise" as they will. And I will be in action in ways that they haven't begun to think of quite yet.

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Magscrambler on July 10, 2006 - 8:17pm

Good article. I worked for a company that is a supplier to Pemex. In fact Pemex was our largest customer. I was a design engineer for aproximately a dozen large projects, mostly around the Villahermosa area, and mostly natural gas compression. Several of the projects were crude oil. A very large crude oil pipeline project was cancelled while I was working there. I always wondered if it was due to depletion. Considering how they operate, I'm amazed they have made it this far.

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