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Who is gouging who? You think your gas prices are high?
Gas stations: We're the gouging victims - CNN website
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Gas station owners in New York, Maryland and other states are furious about that, too, and they're blaming their suppliers for gouging them.
And some state attorneys general are taking notice.
New York state law prohibits suppliers from taking unfair advantage of consumers by charging grossly excessive prices for essential consumer goods or setting different prices for different areas in the same market.
Last week Schneiderman was appointed to a national Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Group that includes U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and representatives from the Department of Justice, the Commodity Futures Trade Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Departments of Agriculture and Energy.
The group of federal and state agencies is looking into claims of potential wrongdoing throughout the gasoline distribution chain.
Personally, I think the end user, the consumer, the average Joe is getting the sharp end of the stick. I understand that business owners are getting squeezed, but why are their interests more consequential than the end users.
When the oil companies are getting huge taxpayer funded subsidies intended to stabilize and control (at least in part) the price of gas to the consumer, and that is not happening, shouldn't there be some alarms going off? Isn't that called fraud? Or lying? Or trading in bad faith? Or misrepresentation? Or some other legal mumbo jumbo?
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