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(Bloomberg) Fuel that is so dirty that the global shipping industry banned its use last year is being burned at the highest level in three years in Mexican power plants.
With the global shipping industry shunning sulfurous fuel oil to curb emissions, storage tanks in Mexico are overflowing with the stuff. The solution for Mexico is to push more of it for electricity generation, replacing cheaper natural gas, that is often imported from the U.S. As a result, demand for the fuel jumped by almost 50% in the past year to more than a 100,000 barrels a day in March, according to government data.