AG Finds Gas Price-Gouging in Advance of Gustav

Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell received more than 300 complaints by late Saturday of gas stations jacking up the price of fuel as hundreds of thousands of residents made their way inland in advance of Hurricane Gustav, according to Baton Rouge’s WAFB-TV.

Investigators cited three stations for violations; the stations claimed they didn’t know they could not increase the prices.

“In one case, a station was caught jacking up the price of gas from $3.50 a gallon to $4.10,” according to the report.

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