Gas station owners file price - gouging suitRebekah Gordon
All 48 gas stations that settled with the attorney general's office charged 3.99 dollars or higher for a gallon of gasoline or diesel. Some stations allegedly charged as much as 8.99 dollars for gas at the time of the declared disaster. As part of the settlements, each gas station agreed n...
Senator Kagan said this bill will limit what she calls "bait and switch" and price gouging.
On Saturday morning at a BP station in Brooklyn, New York, computer worker Nick Schaffzin blamed Putin for the $5.45 per gallon he was shelling out and said he will make sacrifices to pay the price. “You just cut back on some other things — vacations, discretionary stuff, stuff that’...
"I pulled in, I start pumping my gas and then I realized I put $80 worth in my truck," another driver told TV station 8News. "The lady next to me said she put $100 in her car. She just started crying because she said her car don’t take that much." Price gouging laws are ...
At a Chevron station off Alameda Street in Los Angeles downtown, customers were charged 7.89 dollars per gallon for regular unleaded gas on Wednesday afternoon. Local Fox 11 news channel reported Wednesday morning that they saw a crazy price gouging at 8.06 dollars. ...
BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts secretary of state has called for an investigation into the sudden surge of gasoline and heating oil prices across the state that have occurred since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to make sure retailers and wholesalers are not gouging the public. “They have...
And again, this was only available to drivers who were “lucky enough” to find a gas station that still had any fuel left. Some gas stations tried to battle panic buying by limiting the amount of gas purchased per customer. After days of negotiations, anonymous sources, quoted by CNBC, ...
1.Also calledgas station.a place equipped for servicing automobiles, as by selling gasoline or making repairs. 2.a place that provides a service. [1915–20] Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. Al...
Vehicles line up to get fuel at a Sunoco gas station in Sumter, South Carolina on Tuesday, May 11. Micah Green/Bloomberg/Getty Images Spokespersons for the South and North Carolina Attorneys General say they’ve received almost 1,000 reports of price gouging amid the gas shortage that’s bei...