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by What do Americans do when faced with higher prices? Most of them simply cut back on their driving; AAA reports a decrease of 4.3% in traffic which equates to 11 billion fewer miles. Other Americans find it easier to step down from their high horses and resort to crime. Reports have come in for truck-jackings for the fuel rather than the vehicle. Gas stations report increased cases of "drive-offs" where patrons simply fill-up and drive away without paying. And the siphoning crimes of the 70s are prevalent, but in a new way. Instead of siphoning with a hose, the high clearance of SUVs allow thieves to simply drill into the fuel tank or cut the fuel lines. Across the Atlantic, UK truckers have taken to angry protest by intentionally congesting highways over fuel costs equivalent to $11.50 a gallon.
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ways of stopping diesel fuel theft?
We're seeing specialized diesel fuel theft vehicles built by professionals. Welded tanks hidden from view and siphons that run off of the engine's power... We're seeing especially bad theft in California and along major trucking arteries. I've read that prices will rise through 2009 but I think it could be longer
This article on my blog can help you stop diesel theft:
Stop Diesel Theft: 6 Ways to Prevent Diesel Fuel Thieves
http://www.pro-vigil.com/blog/?p=63
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Not just the Anglo-Saxons... by galton :: NR4 :: Show
The sharp rise in cases of gas theft was the topic of this week's "66 Minutes" broadcast on M6 in France; from the programme's synopsis:
The explosion of gas thefts.
"It's unprecedented: in certain gas stations, the number of motorists who drive off without paying has tripled in the past few months. Others fill up and leave a piece of ID or jewellery as a 'deposit'. With the rise in prices, fuel is even becoming the object of trafficking on a large scale. Tankers siphoned, lorries hijacked, such cases are proliferating in France. In the vicinity of motorways, diesel can be bought 'under the counter' from unscrupulous tanker-drivers. In Aix-en Provence, a vast network of fuel trafficking, with a turnover of a million Euros, was dismantled by the police on the 20th May. Our inquiry into this new 'petro-criminality'."
I'm sure the same trends are no less prevalent here in the UK. In fact, the porous border of Northern Ireland with the Republic has always been a conduit for fuel smuggling into the UK and was once a major source of revenue for the paramilitaries there.