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bajaguy
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Gasoline protests
Protestors blocking highway 1 in Camalu due to increase in fuel prices....from ensenada.net
http://www.ensenada.net/noticias/nota.php?id=47596
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woody with a view
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Heard thru the Tortilla Telegraph that BdeLA has zero diesel.
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TecateRay
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I see the word "gasolinazo" in the Spanish language articles. Is there an English language equivalent?
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bajaguy
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Enter the URL here
https://translate.google.com/
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Bajaboy
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There were long lines on the 31st as we pushed north. Glad we decided to come home early.
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DENNIS
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The "gasolinazo" [term coined by I don't know who....government, or public] was a predetermined time span for scheduled gas and fuel price increases
on the first of each month. The program ran it's course and was discontinued a few months back. If they reinstate the program, I would assume it would
have a new label.
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[Edited on 1-3-2017 by DENNIS]
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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DENNIS
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https://mexicoinstitute.wordpress.com/2017/01/03/mexicans-ar...
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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chippy
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http://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/898/whats-the-mea...
This might help. Geez Dennis how long you been here?
[Edited on 1-3-2017 by chippy]
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chuckie
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Well, Heck!
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DENNIS
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Long enough to "get it" when someone asks for the common meaning of a word rather than it's genesis.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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RenoJoe
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We've been here from about 3pm. We parked beside the road started our generator raised our satellite dish have T.V. internet and cell. We may vacation
here. We have enough food and water for 3 weeks. I guess this is where we are suppose to be.
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liknbaja127
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We could not get diesel In Bay of LA, on Sunday the 1st. They did have it in Gonzaga, and San Felipe on Monday.
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Nashville Frank
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Gasolinazo - this is a Mexican-Spanish word (not found in most dictionaries and not in the "holy" Royal Academy of Spain list of Spanish words) that
is popularly used to describe the Mexican government's monthly increase in gas prices, as Dennis states.
But, there's a negative "vibe" to this word, as it insinuates an unjust increase in prices based on an arbitrary decision by these "civil servants"!
This article gives its origin, but wonders if its really unjust and arbitrary because of the issue of providing subsidies. (http://www.letraslibres.com/mexico-espana/la-invencion-del-g...)
I guess in the USA, we might have called this a work of the "GasolineN-zis" (harkening back to our younger Seinfeld days and the SoupN-zi!).
[Edited on 1-4-2017 by Nashville Frank]
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DENNIS
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Thanks, Frank.
I see that, in the process of clarifying a point, you got to meet the Nomad LingoN-zi. 
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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Nashville Frank
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chippy, thanks for your addition to this discussion. You added something that I had forgotten about : the "-azo" suffix. Long ago I was a Spanish
teacher and I bet at some time I knew this.
Now, I'll be able to understand the Mexicans I work with when they talk about something being "Super-sized"! Like my narizazo!
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fishbuck
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So they think gas is too expensive?
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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RenoJoe
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Road still closed at 8:30 am on the 4th.
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CVBaja
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Reports of roads and gas stations being blocked in San Quintin. Last update was 1 hour ago.
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rhintransit
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Spent the night in sanquintin all gas stations closed. Back tracked to los pinos for gas. Road blocks san quintin made it thru going back roads
east. Then several road blocks and creative driving around them. The first open gas station is the one south of Santa to Moss the new one out in the
middle of nowhere. We're hoping to make San Diego
[Edited on 1-4-2017 by rhintransit]
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rhintransit
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Just passed San Vincenty the gas station there is open correction to the last post I'm doing this on a bumpy road it's the gas station south of San
Vicente the new one out in the middle of nowhere that's open I don't know about santa Tomas yet
reality\'s never been of much use out here...
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