For the love of gas, continued

Remember how much fun we had, wondering what would happen if the gas prices got even more out of control?

Here's the fallout:

"As gas prices climb past a national average of $4 a gallon, reports of heists like these are cropping up across the country. Incidents of siphoning are on the rise, too, says Jeff Lenard, vice president of communications at the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS). But the bandits aren't just striking gas stations; they're hitting truck stops, construction sites, citrus fields—anywhere a cache of fuel lies unattended." [more]

Former homeowners trashing their foreclosed homes, and now this? I'd cheer on the bandits, but the problem is that this just contributes to the rising prices. I sometimes wonder if the Great Oogieboogie in the sky has decided to pull the plug on his great, grand experiment, and everything in the next few years will be geared toward our extinction. But then, the Mayans have us going down to a big rock from the sky in 2012. But thank God Diablo Cody got an Oscar before it all went kerplooie.