Persecute speculators ... take a few steps .... establish price controls.
Price controls!
Now there’s a proven...losing strategy.
Guess you’ve never stood in a gas line for hours waiting for “cheap gas”. Or checked your license number to see if it ended even or odd so you know if you would be allowed to get in....long gas lines...to purchase gas that day...? Or been allowed to buy 5 gallons at a time on the PA turnpike just to get you to the next gas station- maybe.
How well did that work out for Nixon?.........