Mexico, One Of The World's Biggest Oil Producers, Is Running Out

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Mexico, one of the world's biggest oil producers, is running out

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/22/bloomberg/bxatm.php

By Valerie Rota and Patrick Harrington Bloomberg News
Published: October 23, 2007

MEXICO CITY: President Felipe Calderón of Mexico is delivering a grim message: The largest oil producer in Latin America is running out of crude.

"Our oil reserves have been consistently falling," and the decline is "severely threatening" government finances, Calderón told a nationwide television audience in an address last month at the National Palace. That is the same place where seven decades earlier Lázaro Cárdenas cemented the anti-U.S. legacy of his presidency by nationalizing the oil industry.

Mexico was the sixth-biggest producer last year, after Saudi Arabia, Russia, United States, Iran and China, down from fifth in 2005, according to the Energy Information Administration. In 1921, Mexico was No. 2.

Calderón said in his Sept. 2 address that the country held proven reserves that could last nine years. Venezuela, the second-biggest oil producer in Latin America, has reserves to keep pumping at current levels for more than a century.

The ban on private investment in its oil monopoly is depriving Mexico of the benefits of record high prices and contributing to a slowdown in economic growth. Production of crude, the top export for Mexico, has fallen 8 percent since 2004 to a seven-year low, data compiled by the government show.

Mexico is being punished for its inefficiency in the foreign exchange market. The peso fell 0.08 percent against the dollar this year, the worst performance among the 16 most-traded currencies. Goldman Sachs in New York and Credit Suisse in Zurich say that the decline will worsen.

"If the oil output situation was different, if it was stronger, if oil output was rising, not falling, we most likely would be seeing a stronger peso," said Alonso Cervera at Credit Suisse in New York.

The drop in production is hurting economic growth by reducing funds to improve highways, bridges and ports, Cervera said. Oil provides 40 percent of government revenue and the slowdown contributed to a 47 percent decline in the national budget surplus in August, according to the Finance Ministry.

The Mexican economy has grown at an average annual pace of 2.8 percent since 2002, down from 4.4 percent during the previous five-year period.

Output has dropped to a seven-year low of 3.12 million barrels a day as the state monopoly Petróleos Mexicanos fails to develop new reserves to offset dwindling production at Cantarell, the world's largest offshore field.

Crude rose as high as $90.07 a barrel in New York last week. The 50 percent price increase from a year earlier pushed up the Canadian dollar 21 percent against its U.S. counterpart, while the Brazilian real gained 19 percent and the Norwegian krone strengthened 16 percent. Canada, Brazil and Norway all export oil.

The $15.4 billion Petróleos Mexicanos investment plan this year covers only half what is needed to fully develop the country's oil and natural gas industry, said George Baker, who runs the energy research company Baker & Associates in Houston.

Pemex, as Petróleos Mexicanos is known, also needs access to foreign companies' deep-water drilling technology to increase its reserves, said Baker, who has been analyzing Mexico for three decades.

"Oil production in Mexico is declining and declining fast," said Alberto Ramos, a Latin America economist in New York with Goldman Sachs. "What is needed is a serious energy reform that would allow Pemex to partner with other companies."

The peso will weaken 2.8 percent against the dollar by March, Ramos said. The slowing U.S. economy, which weighs on Mexican exports and migrant worker remittances, is also hurting the peso, he said.

Calderón, who served as energy minister for eight months under his predecessor, Vicente Fox, has made no direct calls to end the 1938 ban on private oil ownership, said Sergio Méndez at Prudential Bank in Mexico City. Since taking office in December, the president has instead pointed out the shortcomings of the state-run industry, Méndez said.
 
Tough call.

The arguments against peak oil tend to rely on three things:

1) state declarations of oil reserves are infamously unreliable
2) the theory of abiotic oil
3) the technological magic bullet

1) is true, but could so many oil stats be "fixed around the policy"?
2) is considered bogus by the vast majority of geologists, and goes against the fundamental principles of geology
3) is possible, but who knows?

In my opinion, there are too many demonstrable cases of states that have already experienced peak oil for the entire theory to be nothing but a ploy to bring about a NA currency. I think Mexico is running low.
 
Cuba?

I can't remember the title, but there is a movie about how Cuba already transitioned off an oil-based energy (due to our country's bullshit 50-year emargo that didn't do Jack to 'ol Fidel and his family).

It really caused some economic and health problems for the poor Cuban proletariat though...

I've got about 300 existing US Patents and counting that are non-oil based energy tech or efficiency boosters (most going back to the 1880s to around pre-WW2, when everything got "classified" and suppressed), but the PTB won't let that shit hit the US economy...
 
Cars are older than gasoline too

FWIW, Isaac De Rivas invented the first automobile about 8 years before gasoline was invented- used to run on "town gas" or "water gas"= clean burning hydrogen...
 
dMole said:
FWIW, Isaac De Rivas invented the first automobile about 8 years before gasoline was invented- used to run on "town gas" or "water gas"= clean burning hydrogen...
Got any links for that? I'd like to know more.
 
Might be hazardous?

Water fuel researchers tend to get their garages busted up and get bullets in their head from "robberies," but I think I already know AuGgie'd be bustin' some caps of his own. Keep a lookout for Suburbans with black tinted windows and 4 "government suits" in them!

http://waterfuelmuseum.org/
(website's mainly to sell his book, but I'd call it worthwhile- you won't find many other sources for some of these articles)

http://www.knowledgepublications.com/solar_hydrogen.htm
(Roy McAlester is an AZ Engineering Professor who's been quietly driving around without gasoline for 16 years or so in his little D-50 pickup)

http://hydrogentruth.info/index.html

http://h2-pv.us/H2/PDFs_Dloaded.html

I'm personally getting pretty tired of Al Gore and his "Green" buddies telling me about the engineering particulars of why the "hydrogen economy" will never work- grrrr.... They need to go do a little more homework (on Stanley Meyer and Daniel Dingle and others).

I'm all for telling OPEC what they can do with all their messy crude though (my politics are errr- complicated, you could say).
 
Correction- not MY patents

I didn't invent the 300+ patents- I physically have the PDFs for posterity. I've given copies of my research to some.

Why re-invent the wheel? Read what's already existent first. pat2pdf.org and Gerry Vassilatos and the late Thomas Valone's books are pretty good places to start. Patents aren't the easiest reading for the non-technical though.
 
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Agreed

You're probably not as interested in building your own ammonia refrigerators as an 'ol mountain/desert creature like me- you've got lots of pretty streams in NY for that right?

I found one crazy bastard in Australia who was building a gasoline-fired refrigerator for his 6-pack (working on an oil rig where there was plenty petrol and no electricity). He was wishing for a jet-powered fridge, but some guys believe in overkill...

Hydraulic engineering, solar cooking, alcohol fuel and hydrogen production- let's get back to the 1800s technology and do our science/engineering RIGHT this time! (as in keep the greedy corporate/political/media parasites the FUCK out of our science and education system).
 
No, I am interested in getting a few photovoltaic panles, and a SIMPLE was to seperate water into seperate components. I think just a few 400w panels (ready for shipping at Target apperantly) would be more than enough for my needs. I could livewithout electricity, but if I can have it for a few hours a night, so much the better.
 
I should add that as far as refridgeration goes: Streams, or an earth cellar. I'm sure you know below three feet the temperature is a pretty uniform 45-48 degrees. Perfect.
 
Cellar not so easy...

We've got a little bedrock problem in many of the areas that I frequent, and streams aren't all that easy to find either. Wind and solar make a lot of sense out this way though.

There's a wave generator called the "Duck Diver" designed by a TX artist who refused to sell it to suppressive "development companies". I believe that Denmark leads the world with over 80% wind/wave power generation.
 
That's a pretty cool video AuG. I bought that DVD a couple of years ago at an alternate energy conference that was WAY cool. I got Moray B. King to sign a couple of his ZPE books there. I was also harassed by a couple of very-creepy, New-Agey "cult" (and possibly agent?- how much do you know about Hell Ron Hubbard's naval intelligence ties?) types at that conference on 2 consecutive days...

Strangely, Hubbard/various cults tie John "Jack" Whiteside Parsons'/early NASA's, Hal Puthoff's, Russell Targ's, and Stanford Research Institute's work and the above all together somehow in a shadowy, "string-like" manner.

http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/Pages/CIA-InitiatedRV.html

You might want to read about Konstantin Meyl and John Bedini- it's similar stuff.

Bedini's Page
http://www.icehouse.net/john34/

Also see the following page:

http://www.intalek.com/Index/Index.htm

That ol' boy is QUITE an interesting fellow- we compared notes a little at the conference. He presented pre- & post-experiment chemical analyses by a professional lab of some carbon HIGH VOLTAGE spark gap electrodes and some other stuff. Somehow, his "carbon" electrodes developed a ~ 1000%-10000% (10-100 times) increase in above-medical-grade, ultra-high-quality stainless steel content in the "carbon", as I recall.

I think he also had a japanese company approach him (unsolicited- hmmm...) about this process.

Also see:

Peter Lindemann, D. Sc.
http://www.free-energy.ws/

GET HIS BOOK The Free Energy Secrets of Cold Electricity AuG. I think I've recommended it around here before. If for no other reason, the book is worth the price for the picture of E. V. Gray putting a "cold electricity"-lit standard light bulb into a jar of water. Does anyone care to repeat that with standard 60 Hz AC wall power???

Also:

http://www.theverylastpageoftheinternet.com/

http://www.rexresearch.com/
[His $13 dollar CD is WELL worth the price- it will save you that much time downloading his CONSIDERABLE webpage info. Also, he keeps slipping a 9/11T CD in with my repeat orders ;) ] He also has some exremely "rare" papers available for purchase that you won't likely find ANYWHERE else.

"Weird science, why don't people understand? Weird science..."
 
For the layperson and for posterity, the key here to ZPE/radiant energy collection is in SPLITTING the atmosphere/"positive" from the "earth"/ground connection "negative." Nearly EVERY circuit in the last 120 years has been designed to waste or reject this "solar system" or "aetheric" energy- there's your "conservation of energy" and "dissipative/resistive" "laws." The "circuit" Kirchoff loop concept is actually the problem- one actually designs a dipole (or quadrupole or more) in "free energy" systems. The biggest challenge is in converting the high voltages into lower voltages compatible with our existing electrical devices.

The "splitting" is done with some BIG-ASS capacitors, resonant circuits, and spark gaps for "safety." The spark gap will "arc" and discharge at a certain HIGH VOLTAGE if properly designed, and this will depend upon atmospheric conditions (unless you're working with vacuum tubes and systems). This is the "safety" valve in the circuit, and the system will still hold a HIGH VOLTAGE charge after "discharging" at the spark gap setting, unless your "free energy" load consumes this capacitor charge.

WARNING: THIS WORK INVOLVES HIGH VOLTAGES AND SHOULD NEVER BE ATTEMPTED BY PEOPLE WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND HIGH VOLTAGE SAFETY!!!! IT COULD EASILY KILL A PERSON OR PERSONS!!!!

That said, a glass "beer bottle"/salt water capacitor will hold HELLA electrical charge, and ANY functional capacitor is capable of "simultaneous" atmospheric charging- you've been warned- capacitor safety 101.

Also see "ground radio"- antennas are a pretty wasteful, stupid idea, truth be known. This was fairly common knowledge in early radio days and is known in Central America, but we're "smarter" here in the modern U.S....

http://www.icehouse.net/john34/groundradio.html

http://borderlands.com/newstuff/research/ground-myst.htm

You may also want to look into geothermal passive solar heat-pump systems- they (and your modern refrigerator) are usually 300% or more "over-unity" systems.

Every hour, our Sun radiates much more energy to the Earth than was released in the largest hydrogen bomb blast known. The earth, oceans, lakes, ponds, etc. store this "solar" energy, even in wintertime and northern climates. Temperature difference is all that is needed to operate a Stirling Engine (which was "obsoleted" by James Watt's fuel-burning steam engine during the "Industrial Revolution".) We are still paying the consequences of that fuel-based decision today.

Properly designed radiant ZPE systems also work at nighttime, as this is a "universal" not a "solar" radiation. Of course, there are many "debunkers" that will say ZPE is all "pseudo-science" or "junk science" and they likely either don't understand it or are actively "shilling" against it for whichever agenda they are serving...

If ZPE is all "bunk," why are high-voltage capacitors stored in a shorted condition for "safety?" You can't get electricity from "nowhere" can you??? I think most were told back in junior high general science class (up through university and graduate physics if anyone is counting) that you can't use "static" electricity (or lightening either). Is anyone willing to bet their life on it and grab UNSHORTED high voltage capacitors at random???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_capacitors

"This is also why, for safety, high voltage capacitors are stored with their terminals short circuited."
 
Well sir, I don't know about all of that, but I found it interesting that air even at -5f still contains heat that the laws of convection dictate will trade it's heat for cool. And the very AIR contains enough heat to be utilized for power generation. Good stuff. I want to know how to MAKE one of those damn things. There were actually a few. I will get myself and everyone I know off of the power grid if I can reliably generate power enough to supply a home. I think that these things are at the edge of taking off. I don't want to make someone ELSE rich getting me and mine off the grid. Got a page with a materials list and detailed instructions?
 
Oh, and no, I know nothing about ElRon other than he is a kook who wrote a book called Battlefield Earth I really enjoyed until I found out that was pretty much his religion with all that Xenu shit.
 
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