TREND. 3 Caution Points. Mexico Deregulation. Texas Oil and Gas. Mexico's Cartels.

Rolling Stone’s Blood and Oil MEXICO’S DRUG CARTELS AND THE GASOLINE INDUSTRY reveals that:

• Los Zetas began selling stolen gasoline around 2010
• “the businessman describes a dozen or more illegal schemes around the import and export of oil and gas between Texas and Mexico, everything from smuggling marine diesel in shrimp boats to passing gasoline off as unrefined lubricant to evade customs.”
• “tapping pipelines is “kid stuff.””
• The rela fuel theft is white collar in Mexico