Mexico Drivers Get First Independent Gas Stations in Over 75 Years Carrie Kahn - NPR.org
go to original June 30, 2016

For the first time in nearly 80 years, Mexicans can fill up their cars in a gas station not run by the state-run petroleum monopoly. Since the 1930s, Pemex, Mexico's gas and oil monopoly, has own every gas station in the country and controlled all the prices.

This month two companies opened new gas stations around the country, and Mexicans hope that the competition will eventually bring down prices. That's something that was promised two years ago. That's when lawmakers passed reforms and opened the state-run monopoly to private investment. NPR's Carrie Kahn sent this report.

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