Most Mexican crude oil exports halted due [sic] weather — Reuters

The bulk of Mexico’s crude oil exports were suspended on Monday as stormy weather in the Gulf of Mexico closed major oil ports along the southern Gulf coast and shut down a fifth of the country’s oil production.

Geez. I guess that’s bad.

Stormy weather in the Mexican Gulf last week killed at least 21 oil workers fleeing a damaged oil platform in life rafts and shut off oil exports for a couple of days.

21 people died? I don’t remember hearing about that.

It also left a 5.5 mile (9 km) streak of oil as 500 barrels of crude leaked from the damaged platform, environmental watchdog Profepa said. Officials in Tabasco state said the oil spill left sticky black stains along some 19 miles of coast.

Seriously? Was that last week too?

In yet more bleak news for the oil titan, residents of Veracruz state were raging at a pipeline spill last week of some 10,000 barrels of oil which by Monday was oozing down rivers and into the Gulf of Mexico.

10 000 barrels? Was that in the headlines? How did I miss that?

Pemex also suffered two crippling bomb attacks this year by leftist rebels on its crude oil and natural gas pipelines.

What? When?

So what other mass deaths, serial environmental catastrophes and rebel bomb attacks are going on in North America? I guess we won’t know unless they happen to slow US oil imports.