Posted by Tarkus on 10/30/05 23:10

On 10/30/2005 12:59:10 PM, The Man With No Name wrote:

> I recall reading on Snopes.com about a gas-station that raised it's
> prices to ridiculous levels (something like $10 a litre) around the
> time of the New Orleans floods, but were quickly ordered by the FCC to
> lower them back to reasonable levels.

Why would the FCC have anything to do with it?

> Not exactly sure what the technicalities of it are, but there are laws
> like that.

There are laws on the books in some states to deal with gouging by local
businesses during emergency situations. But that's not what we're
talking about. We're talking about oil companies raising prices despite
high profits.
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