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Title: Gas THEFT-CHECK It Out
Author: John E. Cox
Source: 1986 Gulf Coast Measurement Short Course (Now called ASGMT)
Year Published: 1986
Abstract: For many years, gas companies in the United States had a fairly complacent attitude towards as theft. They felt, It cant happen here! In general, that attitude was correct. Gas did not cost enough to tjarrant much effort to steal it. It simply was not that valuable a commodity. Then came the upheaval of the seventies. The oil embargo, gas shortages, spiraling energy prices, inflation, and unemployment. Very quickly, the issues changed. Gas theft was seen, and it even hit the newspapers. Why? Because a heretofore missing variable in the equation that defines when people steal suddenly appeared. All of a sudden, there was economic incentive. The system has always been vulnerable, and detection has always been difficult, so this one key factor made a significant difference.

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