As gas prices soar, thieves grow brazen

I haven't heard of anything of this sort happening down where I live. Gas prices here have historically been below the national average so theft hasn't quite cropped up yet. Many people suggest locking gas caps but there are issues with those affecting fuel pressure. You can also just keep your car in a garage at night but people prefer to use their garages as storage.

I just want to know what jobs the SUV drivers here have. Apparently they can still afford to feed those enormous beasts and sit with them idling in the grocery store parking lots.

I got in my Van this morning and noticed that my gas cover was lifted. I'm glad i invested in a lock-gas-cap. This saved me $90, and I certainly urge people to start investing in lock-gas-caps. Waking up one morning and finding that all your gas is gone can be a real nightmare.

It seems like history always repeats itself. Back in the real oil crisis of 1974 when gas was in short supply, everybody in our housing tract left home to go to work one morning to find that somebody, in the wee hours of the morning, had gone up and down the street siphoning everybodys gas out. At least we can get gas now [until the credit cards run out].

I think they should just put in subways and better public transportation and do away with cars and car insurace so the people can save hundreds of dollars and hundreds of lives no hit and run no dui no speeding would be a much better place to live and raise our kids. and we could use the oil to produce more production jobs for the working people. Driving is to dangerous and everyone should have to same transportation means so we need a better transportation system and it would stop the jobs from going overseas to. Everyone should buy a motorcyle or scooter to save on gas and more jobs should offer a bus with a small fee of 20 a week for round trip to work and back with a mutal pick up and drop off sight. And make people sign a waiver before they get in. But, subways and more trains would be better idea for the future of our kids.

It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better! You jokers voted for a moron to be president TWICE and don't even want to impeach his pathetic ass! He and the VP clearly brought all this down upon your asses! Y'all are practically on your knees giving head to the Saudi Ay-rabs! You dumbasses all deserve this so quit complaining and suck it up or finally get angry and do something about it!

Even in my small backwoods town people are doing this. My best friend recently had her tank emptied. The worst part was it messed up the computer system, and that had to be reprogrammed. It has been a NIGHTMARE! A coworker (transplant from Dallas) says that her family has had holes cut in their tanks.

I agree that the schmucks that voted for Bush deserve what they get. He ran this country into the ground just like the businesses his daddy gave him. Hungry? Eat your gas guzzling SUVs.

Locking gas caps are the biggest scam in auto accessories. Passenger cars and trucks have screens in the base of the filler neck to prevent siphoning. I work at a dealership and I see fuel tanks with holes punched in them; or even more dangerous, drilled into. Bottom line is, if they want it or need it, they WILL get it.

Oh boy! You havent seen nothing yet. The crime rate is going to soar.
It's kind of like the Mel Gibson film Road Warrior. Burn to hell Chevron!!!

I agree with the poster about our wonderful president. It always amazes me that people voted for him again. also people have the balls to keep the campaign stickers on their cars. Cheney and Halliburton will burn in hell and Bush is so pathetic. WAR= $$ right Cheney?

Incidents like will continue NOT UNTIL THE GOVERNMENT STOPS TRADING GASOLINE. Based on reports, we have ample supply but the prices are going up so fast ALL DUE to SPECULATION.

I drive a Jeep Wrangler (and I'm tired of hearing about Hummer. Hummer H2s and H3s are nothing short of worthless off road) and it gets about 16mpg (depending on how windy it is due to the "box" shape and if it is in 4-wheel drive or not). And it is almost just as easily stolen as gas can be stolen from the tank. Even though the mpg is horrible, I wouldn't drive any other car, unless I couldn't physically afford to drive it anymore. Tons of people enjoy the freedom of driving a car and a lot cant just wait for the government to build trains that will take them everywhere they want to go. Point is that America is a long time away from switching to public transportation like Europe has.
And to the people that are complaining about the government getting us into the war, what was America thinking when Bush suggested going to war with Iraq? If you want to blame someone for getting us into the war, you only need to look at most of America

I have recently moved to Brazil. In 1973 Brazil suffered from a thing called the Arab Oil Embargo. Since that time they have engaged in a thing called the "National Energy Policy." Here ethanol is made from sugar cane. It´s per acre yield is 8 times that of corn. 8 X more gallons of fuel per acre! Here sugar cane farms receive no FEDERAL subsidies, yet obviously their business is good. Here I drive a Ford. Ford and GM both are profitable companies here in Brazil, as they are in every other nation in the world except for U.S.A. and Canada. With my Ford I can use pure ethanol or gasoline. (All gasoline here has 15% ethanol. ALL of it) Last year the consumption of ethanol exceeded that of gasoline in passenger vehicles. The fuel carbeuration system is called flex fuel and is not available in Ford or GM cars produced by the U.A.W in the U.S.A. As a reformed "W" Koolaid drinker I never thought I´d say this, but in my opinion, "Big Oil, and Big Agriculture are causing boatloads of money to be sent to Hugo Chavez and Ahmijidabad DAILY ." We are junkies paying for our own self destruction. If gasoline had reached $4.00 a gallon 7 years ago, the United States would be in a much better position economically today.

The reason for rising gas prices is not necessarily in the hands of our dim witted president. He was the one who sold all of our oil, but the matter really lies with congress (the good ol' boys who actually run this country). The fact is that there is very little fossil fuel left to be had in the manners and places which we traditionally get it. We don't have the budget as a country with this war to find new and better ways and places to drill with this war. Rather than rationing our gas, which would more cost effective, our government drives the prices up to keep consumption at a manageable level. If there was rationing, in this day and age, there would be rioting in the streets and a very real possibility of a civil war. To reference back to Adam, it really would become 'Road Warrior'.

The way to fight back against rising fuel costs is not to wait it out. It's not to drive mammoth cars or to stop driving them. It's to start getting our heads out of our asses. Start voting. Start getting out there and making your voice heard. Stop thinking these people are going to keep you 'safe'. Look where your money goes. Does it go to build roads or does it go to keeping a cult tax exempt? Does it go to educating your children or does it go to funding endless patrols in the flea ridden sand of a foreign country looking for WMD's which died with the man within who's feeble mind they existed in the first place? Would you let a stranger have your credit card? That's what you've given this pack of wolves. Start looking at your statements America.

Maybe the folks running the senate and the congress should let us drill for our own oil.

just buy a bus pass and ride the bus and everyone should stop buying gas period and make the public transportation better and bring it to cities that have no public transportation. We are making them rich. 4 dollars a gallon say 80 to fill up times 100 ppl now how many ppl do you think fill up everyday.. Just stop driving and carpool make sure you add the people to your insurance go get a cdl and buy a van and charge 20 a wk to take ppl to work. Make them sign a waver. to protect you. Do the math the bus sysytem is way cheaper plus you could drop your insurance if you dont drive to save money. buy a scooter or motorcycel. look at what our kids have to look foward to teach them the bus system and how to survive without a car and how to make the most of their money.

easy solution......drill here, refine here....... we sit on billions of barrels of oil.....not tapped. No refinery has been built since 1976. No it is not because of George or the war or Dick. The price of gas and other fuels in this nation are rising at thief causing prices because we haven't increased the supply while we increased the demand. We sit on oil, we sit on coal, we can use a lot of both right now. We can solve this problem tomorrow if this nation would actually lift a finger to help themselves. BTW on a related issue. The earth is now cooler than it was in 1980. All you have to do is see for yourself. So please, no more whining about CO2. The temps prove there is no relationship between anthropogenic CO2 and global temp. Now is the time to get about the business of this nation and quit with the socialist fantasy game.

My diesel pickup has been sitting in my drive way since November 2007 when I bought my Prius. My car payments are made purely by the fuel savings. If everyone that is driving a 15 to 20 mpg vehicle bought a 48mpg vehicle in this country, we wouldn't need to import a drop of foreign oil (at least for the next few years). If I had bought the Prius in 2006, I could have gotten $3500 fed tax rebate. But the feds did away with that. Made too much sense to incentivise Americans to do the intelligent thing.

My diesel pickup has been sitting in my drive way since November 2007 when I bought my Prius. My car payments are made purely by the fuel savings. If everyone that is driving a 15 to 20 mpg vehicle bought a 48mpg vehicle in this country, we wouldn't need to import a drop of foreign oil (at least for the next few years). If I had bought the Prius in 2006, I could have gotten $3500 fed tax rebate. But the feds did away with that. Made too much sense to incentives Americans to do the intelligent thing.

Hybrids are a @!$%#ing joke. Your diesel pickup is actually more "environmentally friendly" than the hybrid. You know why? The mines where the nickel is mined out of to make your Prius batteries are up in Canada. The nickel is then transported to a plant that makes it ready for production. The land around the plant has become so devastated, NASA utilizes it to test out Martian rovers and the like. This "Dead Zone" is inhabited by 0 plants and 0 animals. It's not over. Then the nickel is shipped by boat to China, where it is assembled into its battery form. The battery is then shipped to Japan for branding by Toyota, then shipped to the United States. The total impact your Prius has had on the environment? You could have driven your diesel pickup 13,000 miles and still have had a lesser impact on the environment. You've saved nothing but your own arrogant dollars. It's elitist aristocrats like yourself who do nothing to solve any problems outside of a mis-order of a Starbucks non-fat latte.