House passes gasoline price-gouging bill

The hill ^ | 05/19/2022 | Rachel Frazen

[FlingWingFlyer]

The first price gouger’s ass they need to get is the one stuck to the back of Brandon the Pedophile clown.

[Repeat Offender]

FReepers are quick....beat me to it.

[lurk]

Price controls. What could go wrong.

[JJBookman]

The biggest gasoline gouger is the Government, 80% of the cost on a gallon of gas is taxes.

[GunHoardingCapitalist]

Im wondering if that includes the federal and state tax price gouging on gas as well?

[GunHoardingCapitalist]

Im wondering if that includes the federal and state tax price gouging on gas as well?

[mmichaels1970]

I had to show a family member the average profit (not revenue) of oil companies for a gallon of fuel versus what the gooberment takes per gallon. I may have opened some eyes, but not likely.

You for a link to those numbers handy? Sounds like an interesting read.

[mmichaels1970]

For=got. Stupid iPhone.

[Sam Gamgee]

Someone needs to sit these people down with the chart for WTIC. Duh, see the correlation between the oil price and gas prices? Could THAT be the reason gas prices are so high?

[IYAS9YAS]

You for a link to those numbers handy? Sounds like an interesting read.

This is more than a decade old, but the principles still apply.

https://www.forbes.com/2011/05/10/oil-company-earnings.html

[boxlunch]

So odd number of license plate gets to fill up on MWF and even on T TH S? If there is any to be had? And wait in line for hours to get any?
Shades of Jimmy Cahtuh

[ridesthemiles]

MEANWHILE-—EVERY employee of such gas stations MUST make at least $15 an hour. I SEE LAYOFFS COMING.

[fwdude]

So, now we’ll have outages. Not “shortages,” OUTAGES.

[fwdude]

“The legislation… would outlaw the selling of fuel at an “excessive” price during an energy emergency, though it does not detail any particular price threshold.”

Proof positive that this was only intended as meaningless Democrat virtue signaling.

[truthkeeper]

Good: now we’ll move directly from high prices to actual gas shortages and Dems will pay the political price.

More likely it will be high prices and gas shortages. Glad I'm retired, I paid my dues sitting in Carter's gas lines.

[GOPJ]

Party ‘elites’ will have gas. So will their drug addicted whore-monger sons... and the criminal class that props up the power of white liberal ‘elites’...

[Eleutheria5]

It did in the 1970s. I would be willing to bet, if I had any money.