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The one that got away isn’t a fish at the Lone Pine Inn on Madison Lake near Mankato. It’s a gasoline thief.

Angler Curt Schueneman says the fuel from his boat and others has been stolen twice this summer, most recently on Sunday night.

He suspects the thieves, or thief, is coming in from the lake late at night and siphoning gas to use in their own boat.

He thinks that because if the thieves drove up the gravel road to the lodge, someone would hear them. And since boat fuel is a mixture of gasoline and oil, it can’t be used in cars and trucks.

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The theft of 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel from two diesel tanks in a field near Lindsay has been reported to Tulare County sheriff’s deputies, officials said this morning.

The theft, which is believed to have occurred between April and July 7 of this year, was reported Monday. The amount of the loss was estimated at $5,000.

The tanks, belonging to R & H Paul Inc. of Lindsay, were in the area of Road 196 and Avenue 241 when they were broken into, deputies said.

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Business is good for John Leighton. His company, which makes anti-theft devices for the diesel tanks of lorries and buses, has seen sales increase by 45 per cent so far this year amid warnings of an upsurge in “fuel rustling” sparked by sharply rising forecourt prices.

While petrol prices have risen inexorably in recent weeks to about 114p per litre, diesel – a fuel that could once be relied upon to undercut the cost of petrol – is now on average 12p per litre more expensive, which is causing financial difficulties for heavy users such as the haulage industry.

The AA said the 5.7 per cent rise in British diesel prices in the past month was the steepest since 2000 and warned that the intervention of speculative investors on world crude oil markets was helping to push up prices to more than $135 (£68) per barrel – more than double the cost of 12 months ago.
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