Consumers are going to extreme measures to get diesel now! - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

H-townbenzoboy · #1 03-20-2008, 10:54 PM

This is just outside Houston.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/fortbend/news/5635491.html

SW · #2 03-20-2008, 11:12 PM

If you read further down in the reader comments, some fool is happy he sold his MB diesel

H-townbenzoboy · #3 03-20-2008, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by SW

If you read further down in the reader comments, some fool is happy he sold his MB diesel

What do you expect out of the posters on the newspaper forum? His loss is a gain for someone who knows a good car when they see it.

pawoSD · #4 03-21-2008, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by SW

If you read further down in the reader comments, some fool is happy he sold his MB diesel

I reported his comment as "Hate speech"

TheDon · #5 03-21-2008, 12:14 AM

genius... lol

#6 03-21-2008, 02:03 AM

Thats a copycat theft. The same thing happened a few months ago.

LUVMBDiesels · #7 03-21-2008, 05:39 AM

I bet the cops get no help from the public on this. People are probably thinling 'Robin Hood'

#8 03-21-2008, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by LUVMBDiesels

I bet the cops get no help from the public on this. People are probably thinling 'Robin Hood'

No matter how "right" or 'Robin Hood-ish' people may want it to be, its still outright stealing. A Robin Hood thief is a lowly thief no matter the victim or cause.

In the end its the station's customers that will have to repay the $4,000 in higher fuel and store goods costs.

Wodnek · #9 03-21-2008, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by ForcedInduction

No matter how "right" or 'Robin Hood-ish' people may want it to be, its still outright stealing. A Robin Hood thief is a lowly thief no matter the victim or cause.

In the end its the station's customers that will have to repay the $4,000 in higher fuel and store goods costs.

Its not really that simple. If they raise their prices then customers will shop accross the street. In reality the owner will just have to eat it.

Now they will have to make locking gas caps as people try to copy.

KCM · #10 03-21-2008, 10:24 AM

I particularly like the statement in the article,

"It is believed the trailer pulled by the suspect's truck contained some sort of pumping device and storage containers."

You Think! Where else was he going to put a 1000 gallons of fuel. And putting a hose in the underground tank wasn't going to make the fuel magically defy gravity and flow up the hose without a pump. Nothing like stating the obvious.

Mismost · #11 03-21-2008, 10:27 AM

If you read further down in the reader comments, some fool is happy he sold his MB diesel

SW, I am curious....why is the guy that sold his MB diesel a fool? Don't you feel foolish paying $4.00 a gallon for diesel when RUG is $3.16? I know I dang sure do.

I love my old wagon. But the cold hard FACT is I'm paying close to a dollar a gallon extra to drive a 25 year fuel guzzling, whats-gonna-break next, not-even-a-classic, heavy a$$ old car. Were I to sell, said car, I would not consider that to be foolish at all! Actually, I would question the buyers common sense.

Frankly, I think you must be too young to have learned that time changes everything! When diesel was cheap, these cars were a great idea.....not so much now.

Dee8go · #12 03-21-2008, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by ForcedInduction

No matter how "right" or 'Robin Hood-ish' people may want it to be, its still outright stealing. A Robin Hood thief is a lowly thief no matter the victim or cause.

In the end its the station's customers that will have to repay the $4,000 in higher fuel and store goods costs.

Yeah, that's like forcing someone else to make one's charitable donations for you. Everything will get paid for eventually, one way or the other . . .

Dee8go · #13 03-21-2008, 09:44 AM

Well, it's safer, easier, and more profitable than robbing banks . . . .

AdvisorGuy · #14 03-21-2008, 10:18 AM

If I cut a hole in the floor under the rear seat,and someone lays back there while I sit in the drivers seat, and the trunk is converted into a 150 gallon reservoir...... Hmmmmm.

Zeppo2K2 · #15 03-21-2008, 11:23 AM

Wow, I have trouble believing the 1,000 gallon theft, and the 400 gallon one is incredible. Picture a 55 gallon drum. For 1,000 gallons, the thief would need at least 19 of them. Then room for the inside the other person, the pump (which must be fairly large and powerful to not spend days over the station tank fill), all would imply a huge trailer. The 1,000 gallons would weigh 6,000 lbs., not including the drums, pump, batteries?, and man. That's a big trailer. Ron