Jenni Hannant lives in Norfolk [dans l’est de l’Angleterre]. When her boiler broke down, she used her usual trick to get it going again: bang on the pump, push the red button, and wait for it to start up again. When nothing was happening, she called a plumber to ask what she should do. He advised him to check the fuel level in the tank.
Outside, the padlock of the room was broken and all that remained of the 500 liters she had had delivered a fortnight earlier was a layer of mud on the bottom. “It’s the first time I’ve been taken on fuel oil, she says. Thieves are probably acting on demand.” Many of his neighbors also ended up with empty tubs. Hannant had to pay 600 pounds [720 euros] to refuel. She would like to install a surveillance camera to prevent further looting, but since she lives alone and everything keeps increasing (fuel, food and everything else), she cannot afford it.
Empty a truck’s tank in minutes
The UK is facing its biggest oil crisis in years, affecting millions of people who need to heat their homes, fill up their cars and cook. The war in Ukraine has driven the price of gasoline and diesel to more than [1,90 euro] and [2,05 euros] per litre, and this volatility looks set to last. Movies Mad Max – in which Mel Gibson and, more recently, Tom Hardy play road warriors in a post-apocalyptic country in which energy resources have disappeared – were inspired by the oil shock of the 1970s: in 2022, it seems less fiction than reality.
Crime has risen along with prices: British Oil Security Syndicate [une organisation ayant pour objectif d’améliorer la sécurité et la surveillance dans les stations-service] reported in a report that cases of “PSP”, meaning “left without paying”, increased by more than 200% compared to the same time last year. The thieves act as an organized gang and, motivated by the large sums they obtain on the black market, they become more and more resourceful. With a special pump, they can empty a truck’s tank in minutes, and they use fake license plates and GPS jammers to avoid detection. In Newcastle-upon-Tyne [dans le nord-est de l’Angleterre]criminals siphoned off for 25,000 pounds [30 000 euros] fuel in a truck depot by connecting a hose to a truck that was parked 800 meters away. In Tyne and Wear, a thief filled a dumpster with unleaded
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