RW>  MH> There was a guy here in MD that was doing that for years and   
   RW>  MH> eventually got busted.  The only difference was he used a large   
   RW>  MH> enclosed work style truck that had large tanks inside of the back.   
   RW>    
   RW> Yeah, that will get somebody's attention right away. They won't miss a   
   RW> few   
   RW> gallons at a time, but they'll certainly miss huge quantities at a time.   
   RW>    
   RW> I forget the amount of worth a theft has to be to meet felony charges of   
   RW> grand theft, but he probably met that within days, if not hours.   
   RW>    
   RW>  MH> He was doing the same thing.  No one questioned him - they thought   
   RW> he   
   RW>  MH> was working on the tanks and would go in, get coffee, etc.  I give   
   RW>  MH> that an A for creativity.   
   RW>    
   RW> He sure had guts to do that during business hours.   
      
   According to the article, the guy was in his 60s and had been doing this for   
   years.  He said no one ever questioned what he was doing.  It wasn't until the   
   same station was getting hit more than once a month - that he got caught.     
      
   He was using different stations all the time, but apparently was hitting one   
   of them too often and they were coming up too short.  He had several 50 gallon   
   drums in the truck.     
      
   RW> Ummmm, I wouldn't count on it. The engine that drives the generator would   
   RW> soon overheat, unless it's water cooled. You might be able to get away   
   RW> with using a fan to keep the air moving, but that wouldn't guarantee   
   RW> anything.   
      
   Since it was running during the hurricane, the wind flow shouldn't have been a   
   problem at that point in time.  :)  It also had liquid cooling based on the   
   rain going sideways and some of it getting under my deck.   
      
   RW> What was the outside temp?   
      
   It was in the mid 40s outside - very cool for a hurricane.  Add 40-80mph winds   
   and it was down right cold.   
      
   RW> LOL! There's 1100 watts right there. My 1100w microwave and the 1500w   
   RW> quartz heater on the same circuit blow the 15 amp breaker when they run   
   RW> together - if I forget to turn off the heater before using the microwave.   
      
   Our microwave is on it's own 20amp breaker.  Otherwise, it would trip the   
   15amp circuit where the toaster over plugs into.     
      
   My old house had all the bathroom outlets run off the same 15amp breaker -   
   which drove me nuts (especially with several girls living in the house).     
      
   Our current house doesn't suffer from that problem and they are all on   
   different breakers.   
      
   RW> That wouldn't cut it here. Our furnace/AC is electric.   
      
   Yes, there is no way it would work on a heat-pump or something like that.  I   
   didn't get a chance to test it running our A/C, but would imagine it would   
   have worked - provided we didn't have the microwave, toaster oven, etc turned   
   on.     
      
   In that case, I would probably turn off all breakers in the house except for   
   the furnace and A/C (if it was summer) and wanted A/C.  Then after it cooled   
   down, I could flip everything back on and disable the A/C.     
      
   Heating isn't a problem since we have natural gas, so the generator just runs   
   the blowers.     
      
   - Mark   
      
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