Lock up your tanks....Mad Max is on the Loose!!!!!

I'd lay bets on it if we don't kill each other first! The line ups at the refinerys for the trucks that make the deliveries to gas stations is miles long. The refineries are having trouble keeping up to demand and that makes EVERYONE a potential Mad Max!

I would assume the people doing this are already crooks. That can range from pickpocketing to robberies. This is just easier and more lucrative. If the gas tank is not locked, you just need a hose and a container to carry the gas off in. It's probably done as quickly as filling up your car at the pump. And it's easily handed off. Think about it. It's gasoline. It's not specially marked or a unique item somebody could recognize. It can't be traced. I'm sure by now there is probably a nice black market going on for this. I recommend buying a tank lock. Even if you have one of those cars where you have to release a lock from inside the car to open the door to the tank you should get one with a key for the actual round screw thing. It'll make it more difficult and time consuming for them. They will most likely move on to the next car. The door thingy can be easily opened. The key-locked screw thingy is another thing.

Yeah this was actually starting to happen where I go to school. Some poor woman that worked at Mcdonalds came out from work to get ready to go home only to find her car's gas had been siphoned right while she worked. I think it's only going to get worse. Stealing gas from cars is a lot easier to do than driving away from the pump. I think people would do that more before they actually started stealing from the pumps, although I know people have already started doing it. These high gas prices are only going to make businesses lose more money and people lose money and gas because everyone is stealing it.

My sister has always sworn by a locking gas cap. I can see a lot more people going out and buying them now. I have not had this problem yet, but I am sure it is only a matter of time.

That's just the beginning of what is about to come. YOu will here that people are going to be dying over gas next. From stopping people from stealing it from out of cars,truck, and at the gas station. This is just the beginning of the gas problem.

About 3 years ago when gas prices started going up, gas hose cutters hit our neighborhood and our truck was one of them. Everyone on the street got hit on one day or another. It was horrible as it was rather expensive to have that fixed. Locking gas caps don't work - they just go underneatht he vehicle and slice the gas hose that goes from the tank to the engine and siphon it from there. I'd guess a car alarm might help for this but it could also be a very quick little slice and that wouldn't be enough to set the alarm off.

Oh this has been going on for a while here at my apartments. We'll fill up our Suburban, and the next morning there's like a drop left...it's sad and disgusting, can't wait to move!!!!!!!