David McWilliams

So basically, fuel smuggling is a massive, massive cross-border operation.

And it's estimated there's 1.6 illegal fuel petrol stations for every legal and regulated petrol station.

Wow.

More illegal petrol stations, right?

Well, fair point.

You don't.

But the problem with Mexico is Mexico is an oil producer.

So it's losing money, right?

So Pemex is their big oil producer because the Gulf of Mexico rechristened to the Gulf of America by Donald, right?

The Gulf of Mexico is full of oil and they've lost, it's close to three quarters of a billion

every year from this illegal fuel smuggling, right?

Then, of course, cartels, human smuggling, massive operation, right?

Primarily from Mexico to the Americans.

They think it's worth $13 billion annually.

It's paid to the cartels

That is up from 500 million in 2018.

That's 26 times higher now.

So it shows you, if you're interested in this, on the issue of literature and books, Janine Cummings is coming to the Docky Book Festival.

Oh, right.

She wrote that amazing book, American Dirt.