[Dutchgirl]

Every state affected by these storm has politicians eager to make names for themselves as consumer activists.

Please call your department of consumer affairs, your attorney generals and other state officials. Let us pit our state officials against federal in this fight, and shame them into some fiscal responsiblity.

We taxpayers shouldn't have to pay twice as much for hurricane assistance--that is price gouging at the federal level. Please post any names and responses to this list.

[cyborg]

They don't need a hurricane to price gouge *lol*

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Individuals or businesses that engage in price gouging face fines of up to $1,000 per violation, or up to a maximum fine of $25,000 a day.

How is it "price gouging" to add the increased costs of getting inventory into a storm-ravaged area to the price of the product.

If you punish merchants by forcing them to essentially sell their product at a loss because you insist the price be the same after the storm as before the storm, it is going to take a whole lot longer to get essential products into a disaster area.

But logic has nothing to do with socialist policies.

[meowmeow]

Recalling favorite Simpsons episode:

...all in favor of the Save Springfield-Perverted Arts bill..?

[Physicist]

“Price gouging is not just immoral - it is illegal,” Bronson said. “Anyone who attempts to exploit another’s misfortune will be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law.”

The government can't repeal the laws of supply and demand, even by declaring them immoral. That's why the Soviet Union collapsed.