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Typically, the thefts involve a ring of crooks working closely together. First a "pumper," an oil-company employee assigned to watch over an oil well, surreptitiously diverts crude into a storage tank reserved for waste salt water, which is a byproduct of the normal production process. Then the hot oiler, usually someone hired to drain the saltwater tank, pumps out the crude and carries it away. He trucks it to an oil reclaimer, whose business is buying and processing sludgy, low-grade oil. The hot oiler sells his load to the reclaimer for about $15 per bbl., well below...
...entire heist may take less than an hour. Each load earns the hot oiler at least $900, minus whatever kickback the pumper demands. One energetic trucker has boasted of pocketing $50,000 in just six months of steady stealing...
Police face a particularly difficult job in rounding up the outlaws. Unless a hot oiler is actually caught tapping a storage tank, the evidence needed to press charges is hard to find, since the crude he has swiped cannot be traced. Moreover, many oil companies have been reluctant to cooperate in prosecutions because they dislike admitting to the public and their shareholders that they have been bilked by their own employees...
...gone on to high school, and I had new friends. I felt dumb. But I realized that at least I could get some playing time if I stayed back, so I did it. It was a lost year in one way, but I gained a lot from it." Houston Oiler Wide Receiver Mike Renfro, who repeated the seventh grade in Texas at his coach's request, disagrees: "I wouldn't keep kids back. After all, football isn't everything...
...Oiler defensive back Greg Stemrick intercepted a Steven Grogan pass intended for Stanley Morgan in the endzone with 30 seconds left to preserve the win, after the Pats had recovered an onside kick and marched to the Houston 18-yd. line...