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To: Crocodile who wrote (4132)	5/12/2006 9:30:03 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24235

I probably should give my broker a call and see if he knows anything about the industry. Yeah, any 2 wheel beast I buy wouldn't be a lot of fun at 1 AM in a snow storm.

To: Crocodile who wrote (4132)	5/16/2006 10:41:21 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24235

Are habits changing? American punks on gasoline dope... Drilling Gas Tanks Latest Means of Stealing Fuel Sacramento's Tahoe Park area got hit by a late-night oil drilling expedition this week, as thieves made off with gas from several residents' trucks by drilling holes in the tanks. Wednesday morning, when resident Anthony Vera tried to start his pickup, the fuel gauge showed empty and the pavement under the truck smelled of gas. He discovered a neatly drilled round hole near the bottom of the truck's plastic tank. Checking the neighborhood, he found two more trucks of the same model with empty tanks and similar holes. Two of the pickups were parked in the neighborhood northwest of Broadway and 65th Avenue, and another farther south on 21st Avenue. "I thought, Oh, they got him, and him too," Vera said. "The tanks on these trucks are pretty easy to get to." The irony, he said, is that the trucks have an anti-siphoning device so that thieves can't push a hose into the tank from the filling tube. He said he heard a new gas tank will cost him $500. "Crazy," Vera said. "It would have cost me less if they had just been able to siphon it." drumbeat.theoildrum.com