FUEL COST SOLUTION * USA - Truckers finding cheaper diesel south of the border

... bought about 18 gallons of diesel for just under $38, paying 5.76 pesos per liter, or about $2.07 a gallon...

Reynosa,Tamaulipas,MEX -The Valley Morning Star (TX,USA), by JARED TAYLOR and KYLE ARNOLD -April 11, 2008: -- Juan Saldaña rolled his truck into the 7-Eleven along Federal Highway 2, on his way to McAllen to pick up his trailer... Wearing a Texas Rangers baseball cap, the Monterrey-based truck driver would have had enough fuel to make the trip there, but he decided to top off his tanks anyway... Saldaña bought about 18 gallons of diesel for just under $38, paying 5.76 pesos per liter, or about $2.07 a gallon. Had he waited until he crossed the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge to top off, he would have paid about $72 for the same quantity of diesel... Diesel cost $3.99 per gallon Thursday at many stations in the Rio Grande Valley... More and more U.S. truckers and other motorists are taking advantage of the cheaper fuel in Mexico, according to one filling station owner in Reynosa... Edinburg business owner Alex Hernandez runs a portable toilet company. He considered driving a tanker to Reynosa to pick up fuel for his 10-truck fleet... Unfortunately for Hernandez, though, the fuel can't be exported without paying a hefty tariff... "I'm just trying to find a way to lower my costs," he said... (Photo by Nathan Lambrecht/The Monitor - Truckers finding cheaper diesel south of the border
Juan Saldana fills up his truck with diesel at a PEMEX before crossing the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge into the United States on Thursday afternoon)