Here's How Trump's Wall Could Block U.S.-Mexico Gas and Oil Pipelines
View on The Street website"'What Trump fails to see is that cutting trade into the United States will...cut our ability to export both goods and capital to Mexico, where our companies would directly benefit. It's just extremely short-sighted and without logic, taking us back to the mercantilism days, where countries actually thought they would be better off if they didn't trade,' said Alan Krupnick, senior fellow and co-director of the Resources for the Future Center for Energy and Climate Economics."
"U.S. hegemony and some of its past policies give Mexicans reason for concern for maintaining their autonomy and dignity; continued openness is not a foregone conclusion, said Dan Shawhan, visiting fellow at natural resource and environmental think tank Resources for the Future, in an email.
'It seems to me likely that they will depend on part on the policies and statements of the U.S. government. Assaults to Mexican national dignity, threats of trade tariffs, or concerns about other punitive U.S. government actions could result in reduced Mexican openness to energy trade and policy cooperation,' he said."
