Pemex Fuel Pricing Caught Red Handed

Mexican gasoline costs include higher taxes than in the United States, about $1.25 dollars a gallon compared with 38.4 cents a gallon in Texas.

I think that part of one of my posts explains part of it. But the question to me remains - How can the price of a barrel drop from over $100 to less than $40 and the price at the pump keep going up? In the US we saw the price come down substantially - now paying well under $2 a gallon for both gas and diesel - down from over $4. But in Mexico the price adjustment for gallons per dollar (calculated from pesos per liter) is well over $3. It is the same oil out of the same hole in the ground. I do think the tax shown above has a lot to do with it. I have no real knowledge of the theft of oil from pipelines or whatever. I have heard the union has tremendous power and is corrupt.