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Gas/diesel in Mexico
Don't head south any time soon. No fuel is available.
From Mexicali south there is a report that gas was available at Gonzaga and LAB nothing else. San Felipe ran out Sunday evening and no deliveries since.
On the west coast some found gas heading south. Many stations are closed. Crap shoot.
20% increase on Jan 1 and 8% more next month and the people are pissed and the station owners are afraid to buy more in case the government backs off on the price increase.

Yup was just talking to my dad about this yesterday. He lives down in Mexicali and said its crazy right now. No gas stations open, people looting stores, etc. They are protesting the government/ president since all he wants is the money. Saying the government pays so much to fix the roads but they just charge everyone to drive on them (toll roads). My dad said they might start knocking them down to ease up some of the tension that is going on.

Sucks because i'll be heading to Rosarito Saturday but i'm going to fill up in San Diego before crossing over and I will be ok.

Ya, they closed the border crossing a San Ysidro on Saturday afternoon for several hours do to protesters of the gas price hikes.

David...

Found one place in San Felipe that has diesel. North side glorietta
Pureticitos has gas - 200 peso limit - kinda joke.

Wow. That's nuts, Paul. Thanks for the info. How are you managing the fuel situation? Doing OK?

Man I hope things get settled before April for the Norra race.

The San Felipe 150 is on Jan 21 and there is concern

How's things down south Paul? Any news to report?

The SF150 race came off just fine and all the stations got fuel in time. Only early preruners had to wait for gas.
No issues at this time. All the San Felipe stations have both grades of gas and diesel.
The next price increase will be ~2/8 and there will probably be peaceful demonstrations at the Mexicali fuel terminal like first week of Jan. They prevented trucks from enter and leaving. Smaller price increase so, maybe shorter and smaller protests - maybe nothing?

That is good to hear. Thanks for the update Paul.

David...

Thanks Paul. Keep updates coming as you can.

I was out in Rosarito on Saturday and everything seemed fine with the gas situation. I am heading back down on Friday night lets see if anything changes.

Fuel price increase postponed 2 weeks
The liberalization of fuel prices, freeing them from government control, will be rolled out region by region over nine months beginning March 1.
If the price increase on the 1st is small then I guess the protests will be small?
Who knows?