Rocketing prices have led to growing problems with businesses having petrol and diesel stolen from vehicles and thieves driving off from filling station forecourts across the district without paying.
Police say fuel has become a huge temptation for thieves and have issued crime prevention advice.
Elysium Natural Products, at Moderna Business Park, Mytholmroyd, was hit twice by fuel thieves in the last few months.
Managing director George Carroll said: "It is becoming a problem because of the way diesel prices are going. It is going to be as valuable as gold.
"We parked the wagons outside the warehouse over the weekend and on Monday morning they had been siphoned and the diesel taken. Ironically, they spilled most of it.
"A wagon holds 200 litres of fuel, so it has cost us £300 plus £1,000 in new CCTV equipment."
The AA says it is concerned about the thefts, which have increased all over the UK.
Dawood Patel, manager of West Vale Filling Station, said: "It is happening all the time. Just today somebody drove off without paying.
"It is costing us a fortune. The main
reason is because prices have gone up, I think."
A spokesman for the Shell station, Salterhebble, Halifax, said they see thefts up to three times a week.
Like many forecourts, Cote Hill Service Station, Burnley Road, Halifax, has state-of-the-art security cameras and staff pin up thieves' photographs in their shop.
Company secretary Rita Stern said: "We probably see thefts about once a week but we have got good CCTV surveillance so we have always got information to pass on to the police. The pictures we put up act as a deterrent too."
Neighbouring Kirklees has seen a 265 per cent rise in such thefts between January and June, compared to the same period last year.
Crime reduction officer Dave Whitteron said: "Although police do everything they can to catch the culprits, we need the help of hauliers and motorists to prevent it."
He said haulier operators should tighten up security around storage tanks and vehicles and drivers can park up against a fence or wall to prevent access to fuel caps.
Petrol prices on the Courier website show the average cost of unleaded is now 119p per litre and diesel is 132.54p.

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