Black gold. Texas tea.
I check every morning when I go to the parking lot to get in my car to go to work. Since I live in a condo, and my place is on the opposite side of the parking lot (thanks, ex-wife) it's impossible to know if someone has been fiddling with my car while I sleep. So far, I've not noticed that there is anything missing. The soaring price of crude oil has turned gas tanks into a cache of valuable booty, and repair shops have replaced several tanks punctured or drilled by thieves thirsting for the nearly $4-a-gallon fuel inside. "That's the new fad," said Dale Forton, the co-owner of Dearborn Auto Tech in Detroit. "I'd never seen it before gas got up this high." While gas station drive-off's and siphoning are far more common methods of stealing gas, reports of tank and line puncturing are starting to trickle into police departments and repair shops across the country. "Gas is liquid gold these days, and has been for the last year-and-a-half,...