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Economists warn the largesse might be a "financial Vietnam" for the United States, requiring Washington to pump in good money after bad to prop up Milei and the peso.

Utilities often use played out crude oil fields as places to pump gas downward under pressure and hold it until it is needed.

To do that, they blast open the rock with the same fracking technology that has led to a natural-gas boom in the U.S., and pump cold water more than a mile underground.

Canadians saw a 4.1% decline in prices at the pump last month, though that followed a nearly 13% drop in gas prices in August and comes after prices in September last year fell.

The attack on the electricity grid has also meant the loss of power to water pumping stations, seriously impacting supplies.