[jambutty]

Originally Posted by pam1

i have just read in the observer. that some people have started to help
them selves to petrol.it was stolen by drilling into the fuel tank of a car to drain it of. so be ware

That’s because modern cars have anti-syphoning filler tubes.

However the worst hit are those people who have oil tanks for oil fired central heating and farmers with tanks of Diesel on the farm. They get drilled, the thieves take what they can and leave the rest to pour away thus adding insult to injury by polluting the ground. You can’t just weld a patch over the hole. Not without taking a major explosion risk you can’t.