{"id":3359,"date":"2006-09-16T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2006-09-16T07:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T07:09:00","slug":"down-mexico-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3359","title":{"rendered":"Down Mexico Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Down Mexico Way, by William S. Lind: “Down Mexico Way”<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m paying a lot of attention to Mexico at the moment. Well, ‘a lot’ means I’ve read a few articles with more than usual interest in the last couple of weeks – don’t have any time for ‘a lot’ to mean much more than that \ud83d\ude41 <\/p>\n

Anyhow, lots of the MSM are covering the political difficulties, but the MSM are ignoring the impact of oil decline. Go here<\/a> for The Oil Drum’s discussion of Cantarell, which is Mexico’s principal oilfield, and which is facing *annual* declines of anything up to 40% per year. See also Khebab’s discussion<\/a> of Mexico’s export capacity. To use the cliche-du-jour<\/i> this has all the makings of a perfect storm, with very large implications for Mexico’s northern neighbour.<\/p>\n

BTW I wrote this before fully reading the Lind article. Erk. Not sure a President Buchanan is quite what the world needs; which isn’t to say that it won’t happen. Events, dear boy, events!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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