How much gas at $10 will anyone buy?
A local gas station doubled it’s prices early morning of 9/11. The only reason I know that is because a home health nurse was headed out early morning to see a patient and needed gas. Nobody else needed gas that bad and by late morning the jerks had dropped their prices back to where they were when they were bypassed by everyone else.
That’s about all we have to control prices.
Here on the Gulf Coast we have gouging laws for hurricanes. The locals mind their P's and Q's though...we've put local gougers out of business afterwards too, people boycott them.
The locals have actually realized that it is a good time to show that they are a part of the community by helping where they can, like free ice, water and etc during black-outs. One restaurant provided 1/2 off meals for relief workers that come from out of state.