Stock Photo - 09 January 2019, Mexico, Mexiko-Stadt: Like many others in the Mexican capital, a petrol station is empty after no petrol has been delivered. Mexico is experiencing a shortage of gasoline. As the number of attempts to illegally tap petrol from overhead lines has increased massively in recent years, the government had decided to change the distribution system. Some of the pipes were closed, the petrol is now brought to its destination by guarded tank trucks. Mexican authorities have now stepped up permanent monitoring of the country's main transmission lines in the fight against gasoline theft. Photo: Jacky Muniello/dpa. - Mexiko-Stadt/Mexico