I'm going to Tecate for some rockcrawling with some guys in the 4WD club. One of the guys "heard" that you cannot bring back gasoline now? Is this
the case? If so, I'm baffled, because I never heard this. Anyone know for a fact if this is some new policy?
Oso - 7-3-2008 at 04:54 PM
It's not new. It's been that way for years. In either direction. You may have just lucked out. I have had both American and Mexican customs check
jerry cans to be sure they are empty when crossing.Ken Bondy - 7-3-2008 at 04:59 PM
Several years ago when crossing southbound at San Ysidro I had to empty several five-gallon cans of gasoline and diesel. Never happened northbound.
But that was back in the days when they wanted you to buy gas in Mexico.
++Ken++LarryK - 7-3-2008 at 05:02 PM
Our truck was checked at Tecate 10 days ago with a 7 gal tank in the back and nothing was said.bajalou - 7-3-2008 at 05:04 PM
It was posted somewhere within the last 3-4 days that US Customs is checking for gasoline. It isn't prohibited, but might be subject to customs
duties. By their rules, it is something you are bringing back from Mexico and should be declared.Cypress - 7-3-2008 at 05:16 PM
Going to Baja for cheap gas!
A whole lot of Gas
MrBillM - 7-3-2008 at 08:16 PM
Subject to customs duty ? Considering the duty-free allowance, wouldn't that be a LOT of gasoline ? Especially at Mexican prices.
As far as 5 Gallon containers being looked at, the Fat Customs Gal Looked straight at my two and didn't say a word this afternoon.
[Edited on 7-4-2008 by MrBillM]bajalou - 7-3-2008 at 08:58 PM
I know it's pretty silly, but they also say if you filled your tank in Mex. you should declare it???????
Doesn't that make you feel really good about how I.C.E. is protecting our borders????
[Edited on 7-4-2008 by bajalou]dean miller - 7-3-2008 at 10:06 PM
Depending on our destination and expected time off the major roads we have always carried one some times two five gallon gas tanks strapped to the
back of our small Baja trailer. Nothing has never been said about the extra gasoline.
I would strongly suspect that Ken's statement is a recent rumor generated as a result of the escalating American gasoline pricesKen Cooke - 7-3-2008 at 10:28 PM
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Originally posted by dean miller
I would strongly suspect that Ken's statement is a recent rumor generated as a result of the escalating American gasoline prices
Allegedly, this information surfaced on CNN yesterday. I haven't checked the United States Gov't websites, yet...Bob and Susan - 7-4-2008 at 06:20 AM
i'm comming up next week for a quick "run to the border"...
i'm interested about the weekly availability of diesel near the border...
have things "cooled" down???
i'll be carring a couple of cans of diesel "just in case"David K - 7-4-2008 at 07:11 AM
CNN ? There's your mistake Ken!Oso - 7-4-2008 at 08:07 AM
Maybe because I had more than one? The '04 B1K- U.S. Customs at Tecate insisted they had to be empty but took my word that they were.
Bajajorge - 7-4-2008 at 08:25 AM
I thought you were allowed 200 gallons duty free?rts551 - 7-4-2008 at 09:41 AM
Just crossed yesterday at Tecate with 4, 5 gal containers of diesel fully visible in the trailer with no comment.Oso - 7-4-2008 at 09:53 AM
Luck of the draw, I guess. Officials on both sides seem to decide at any given moment what they will enforce and how, depending I guess, on mood,
indigestion, if they got some last night, phases of the moon.....
Diesel ?? Quien Sabe ??
MrBillM - 7-4-2008 at 10:39 AM
Coming North yesterday afternoon into Mexicali on Hwy 5, the first station with Diesel on the West side south of the Toll road had a line of trucks
about 30 or so long waiting to get in.
In downtown Mexicali, however, I never saw a line at another station selling Diesel.
This article is from the Mexicali newspaper. The jist of it is that the local police say they have put a special watch on the Pemex plant and on the
border crossings for any illegal "leaks" of subsidized diesel into the US.
Gas station owners are saying that they have not received any increased diesel allocations, but Pemex insists it is sending out larger supplies of
diesel and that it is a "mystery" to them where all that extra subsidized diesel is going.
No big Mystery
Bajajack - 7-4-2008 at 09:27 PM
When you have every mexican semi driver filling up before he crosses the border and then selling every drop at the first US terminal he comes to for
$3.50-4.00 a gallon, and most of the mex trucks carry 3-4 hundred gallons so it's no secret.
They sell everything except enough to get back across the border, they make much more at that than driving.
