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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Gasoline thieves
Topic: Society 3:08 pm EDT, Jul 11, 2008

ABC News highlights a predictable effect of supply shortages: gas thieves. Even before the price at the pump escalated significantly this year, gas thefts accounted for more than $130 million in losses for station owners — almost entirely family-owned businesses, with only 2% of stations in the US owned and operated by the oil companies. Thefts range from a few gallons to covert operations involving thousands of gallons, as ABC helpfully demonstrates in its report:

Maybe it would have been better to leave out the how-to on getting free gas from the pumps.

All we need is biker gangs and a toecutter.

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