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Where criminals were before stealing loose items on the seats, they’re now popping the gas cap.Īs EVERY car has gas in it, and not all cars have something worth stealing on the seats, this makes it much harder to defend yourself. This is in the New York Metropolitan area, so there’s a significant crime rate, anyway. I would have agreed with you about a week ago, though.Īpparently a significant number of people in my neighborhood have had gasoline stolen from their tanks in the last week or two. there has been an increase in fuel siphoning, but people don’t bother reporting it to the police because it’s pointless. there is no increase in fuel siphoning, but people are reacting because they expect it to occur–whether out of panic, or through memory of the seventies fuel crisis orģ. it’s a fiction invented by unscrupulous parts dealers (interesting possibility, but note that recently increased fuel siphoning has also been anecdotally reported in Australia!) Ģ. courier companies) are likely to be disproportionately affected by price rises, and anecdotal evidence from the seventies suggests that if the price continues to rise, desperate operators of such businesses may start to steal fuel, in a more organised way, tanker loads at a time and then you will see other security measures re-introduced, like adding special dyes and markers to the fuel.įrom the point of view of this blog, the interest in the story might be to decide if:ġ. Businesses with low margins and high fuel consumption (e.g. Of course serious criminals also steal fuel, since it’s a largely untraceable, highly “liquid” resource, but they tend not to do the penny-ante siphoning stuff.
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If you are living hand to mouth, and you have budgeted $30 per week to commute to work, and suddenly realise that your $30 has already run out by Friday morning, you may face two choices: find $10 of fuel in a hurry, or lose your job. (Yes, I am recalling my student days when I once trudged for miles in the rain to get a can of fuel - leaving my watch as surety on the can, the grasping bastard! - only to find my car had been vandalised in my absence.)īy the same token, it’s not necessarily true that the “change in price of gas is not enough to markedly change behavior”. If you don’t have an automobile association membership, and can’t afford to suddenly shell out for cab fare or a tow truck, suddenly finding your vehicle without fuel can be a remarkably severe inconvenience. But such a person is also going to suffer a lot more from having a tank siphoned, than merely the loss of $40, or $20 or whatever. Someone living from hand to mouth is less likely to have off-street parking, and more likely to have a very old car without built-in fuel security. That, by the way, gives a hint about the typical nature of this crime: most fuel thieves, and most victims of fuel theft, are relatively poor. (You do see some heavier vehicles without them - mainly diesel fuelled vehicles, which are presumably less attractive to thieves.) Here in Australia, as in Europe, either locking or internally controlled doors over the fuel cap have been standard on most models for so long that now it’s getting somewhat rare to see even an old bomb without one.
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It’s surprising to hear the so many American vehicles apparently require these. Locked gas caps and closed minds, but hey what’s on survivor this week? O_o Gotta keep up with the Joneses, you know. It doesn’t matter, they rush to the store, one eye on their neighbor to see what the other has while buying something equal or to top it. Meanwhile, they’ll continue to howl about their gas prices while slithering out from their SUV’s with their fat rolls waving like a proud flag in the wind, as the Earth continues to try and throw us a clue with bad weather “KNOCK IT OFF HUMANS, YOU’RE HURTING ME” the Earth cries. If you point out the Earth is being sucked dry of its bone marrow (oil) for our coffins on wheels, that the Earth is being sealed up like a tomb for these same coffins, they call you hippy or zealot or some other such nonsense. It’s only when the gas prices go sky high people start looking for alternatives (most of which are not new science). If people had any intelligence whatsoever (as a collective whole) they would unite peacefully against the use of gasoline and oil.