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    Let's punch a hole in heavy metal piping filled with gas. What could possibly go wrong !!!!!!

    Reminds me of the idiots who got fried trying to steal the copper from electric lines that they knew were live wires.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
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    Seeing as nobody has seen fit to talk about this truly appalling situation in Mexico. Of course this is, in no small measure, because they can't blame Trump for it!! Cue for our Saudi shill to find someway to rope him in though.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-lat...939165?SThisFB
    She has zero credibility, Tom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
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    Seeing as nobody has seen fit to talk about this truly appalling situation in Mexico. Of course this is, in no small measure, because they can't blame Trump for it!! Cue for our Saudi shill to find someway to rope him in though.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-lat...939165?SThisFB
    That's easy, they nationalized their oil industry in 1938.

    https://history.state.gov/milestones...45/mexican-oil
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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    She has zero credibility, Tom.
    No one is blaming Trump for theft and distribution problems in Mexico.. HM has dumped his gyro..
    He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    73 people were killed stealing gasoline when the pipeline they were tapping exploded. What does that have to do with Saudi Arabia or Trump, you idiot. Talk about a "shill"?


    What's caused the fuel problems?

    Criminals known as huachicoleros have in recent years begun stealing from oil pipelines and selling fuel on the black market.

    A few litres of fuel are worth more than the daily minimum wage in Mexico.

    Gangs reportedly made 12,581 illegal taps in the first 10 months of 2018, the Associated Press reports - about 42 a day.

    Authorities estimate it costs Mexico more than $3 billion (£2.3bn) each year.
    Lol, socialism is NEVER at fault with you idiots.
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    That's easy, they nationalized their oil industry in 1938.

    https://history.state.gov/milestones...45/mexican-oil
    The cultural bias against foreign oil companies is heavily ingrained in the Mexican psyche, and past congresses that have considered such offerings from Mexican chief executives have always found themselves under great public pressure to vote against them.

    The history behind the nationalization of the Mexican oil industry has been taught to every generation of Mexico’s school children since the 1930s as a story of great national pride and liberation from American imperialism.

    As such, the action has almost as sentimental a place in Mexico’s national mindset as the Mexican Revolution, and thus always becomes a very steep hill for Mexican policymakers to overcome. (A very good example of how this history is taught can be found here.)

    Mexico became the first country to nationalize its oil industry and create a national oil company (today known as PEMEX) in 1938. The action was taken by then-President Lorenzo Cardenas when foreign oil companies operating in Mexico chose to defy a Mexican Supreme Court decision that came after decades of bitter labor disputes and strikes that had rendered the mostly marginal (at that time) Mexican oil fields near-uneconomic, despite the extremely low wages paid to Mexican oil field workers.

    The government seized the oil companies’ assets, forced them to leave the country, and offered compensation that the companies considered to be inadequate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    Let's punch a hole in heavy metal piping filled with gas. What could possibly go wrong !!!!!!

    Reminds me of the idiots who got fried trying to steal the copper from electric lines that they knew were live wires.
    This happened in Nigeria a while back, hundreds died then!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    This happened in Nigeria a while back, hundreds died then!
    Thing is even if it were a pipeline filled with hundred dollar bills, I'd never be stupid enough to try to tap into it if the risk of death were this high.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    No one is blaming Trump for theft and distribution problems in Mexico.. HM has dumped his gyro..
    Nobody said anyone was " blaming Trump for theft and distribution problems in Mexico." God damn, you're stupid.

    You have zero credibility.

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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Lol, socialism is NEVER at fault with you idiots.
    She has zero credibility.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    This happened in Nigeria a while back, hundreds died then!
    Got any video?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    When the State owned oil company shuts down the flow of gasoline to the people because of Mexican criminals, ... the SS media is silent. It doesn't fit their sacred big gov't narrative
    yet you cream your jeans at Putins state owned oil company

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    Got any video?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    Let's punch a hole in heavy metal piping filled with gas. What could possibly go wrong !!!!!!

    Reminds me of the idiots who got fried trying to steal the copper from electric lines that they knew were live wires.
    I saw a video and the gas was just spraying out of where they "tapped" into it.

    This was a disaster waiting to happen.
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