Bush warns against price gouging on gasoline prices

[sabra]

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Bush warns against price gouging on gasoline prices

WASHINGTON, Sept 1 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush warned against price-gouging of gasoline on Thursday in reaction to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and said looters should be treated with zero tolerance.

"I think there ought to be zero tolerance of people breaking the law during an emergency such as this, whether it be looting, or price-gouging at the gasoline pump or taking advantage or charitable giving, or insurance fraud," Bush said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Just like a zero tolerance on WH Leaks? givem the Rove treatment?

[malaise]

2. Fugg Bush

Chertoff is getting a tracing on CNN - hahahahha - Go Soledad (sp.?)

[Skittles]

3. bush and his buddies have been gas-gauging us for some time

the unmitigated GALL of that piece of shit

[mrbill]

9. been smelling an enron replay for months........

somebody needs a cash infusion.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. I'm surprised he didn't trip over his tongue.

Telling gasoline station owners to restrain themselves from a lucrative profit? That one must have been difficult to communicate. But then, if he stuttered and sputtered, who would know the difference?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. What a PANTSLOAD.

If he wants to "warn," let him warn the owners of THIS gas station:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4544627&mesg_id=4544627

[MiniMe]

6. How did Insurance Fraud get into that sentence?

People lost everything they own, their homes, their loved ones, all of their possessions. And he is worrying about insurance fraud??? Granted, there is a time in the future to bring this up, but now is not the time.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Spoken by a man who is on the skids

Appropriately so.

[deminks]

8. Well, there's a hollow threat if I ever saw one.

What empty words. Must be a signal to his buds to let loose the dogs of gouging. "Now is the time, guys. Have at." That's what he really means.

[Judi Lynn]

11. You're right. It's time for "entrepreneurs" to come to the aid

of their wallets. They need to put food on their families, don't they?

[LiberalEsto]

10. Translation: retailers not allowed to gouge

but oil companies have freedom to gouge, loot and pillage

[Mizmoon]

12. I hope the feds really do this

Prices here jumped up to 80 cents in a few hours on the same fuel in their underground tanks.

[0007]

13. Perhaps junior should examine some of the cheating he has

done prior to his stay in WH and during. Maybe junior should address the Pentagon and Halliburton and the Carlyle Boys about trying to make an extra buck.

They say people deserve the type of government they have.....The first folks in line for gas are the ones who never cheated on Income Tax Returns.

[Nickster]

14. Thanks, I needed a good laugh this morning.

[BiggJawn]

15. But it all depends on what the definition of "gouging" *IS*....

Indiana Atty. General Steve Carter, while getting HUGE props for the success of his telemarketer fight, just can't seem to get too excited over gas retailers raping the Hoosiers.

If EVERYBODY in town is charging $3.50, and they blame their Wholesalers, why then, it's not "gouging", it's just "an unfortunate upturn in the market".....

[confludemocrat]

16. Empty words from an empty fool. Media has already sanctioned gouging

by taking them as a fait accompli-- a given, and thereby endorsed the gouging without examining the issue, simply helped the gougers. And days later Bush has this above to say. Obviously all these issues should have been addressed prior to the disaster. He doesn't "work" that way. He truly let's it happen and then preaches to us with platitudes and pledges he never fulfills and expects the media to go along with it and push his failures on the issue down the Orwellian "memory hole". A pattern he (and this dickless bunch of weasels we call the media) repeats incessantly. God what a failure in every thing he does and has anything to do with!

[Eurobabe]

17. If this dumb fuck had half a brain, he'd impose PRICE CAPS

nationwide, to STOP the GOUGING. Gasoline is nothing more than a speculative game these days, it spikes on news.

[antonialee839]

18. Then he should take a ride around

Philadelphia, gouging has already commenced.

[rocktivity]

19. and will he pass and executive order capping the profit margin?

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