Mexican drivers flood into Calif. to buy cheaper gasoline [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Mexican drivers flood into Calif. to buy cheaper gasoline
By Laura Blewitt and Robert Tuttle BLOOMBERG NEWS JANUARY 11, 2017

HOUSTON — Mexico’s fuel market liberalization has done something rarely seen before: Make California’s pump prices look cheap.

Drivers are flooding across the border to Southern California to fill up on gasoline, after protesters blocking distribution centers near the Baja California capital of Mexicali caused stations to run dry.

Antunez’s Shell gas station in Calexico is just five blocks from the Mexican border, and rarely has business been as busy as now. Mexicali drivers wait four to five hours to cross into the United States just to fill their fuel tanks and then wait another two hours to cross back into Mexico.

“Right now, it’s crazy,” Rodrigo Marquez, 30, a station employee, said by phone. “We are having a lot, lot of people, everybody is fueling up their tanks.”

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