CaptUSA
11-10-2012, 01:27 PM
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/n-j-charges-8-merchants-gouging-after-sandy-1C6972582
New Jersey has filed lawsuits against eight businesses for allegedly gouging customers with exorbitant prices in the days after Superstorm Sandy roared ashore, the state's attorney general said Friday. The defendants, seven gas stations and a hotel, are accused of hiking their prices from 11 to 59 percent in the days after the storm. One gas station was charging as much as $5.50 a gallon, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa said. The hotel, a Howard Johnson Express in Parsippany, N.J., allegedly raised its room rates to $119 after the storm, up 32 percent from the top rate of $90 just prior to the storm.
WHOA!!! $5.50/gallon?!! Throw these assholes in prison right now!
So I guess standing in line for 6 hours to buy gas at $3.69/gallon is cheaper in the minds of the idiots running NJ. Obviously, they have no sense of opportunity costs.
The defendants face fines of up to $10,000 for their first offenses and $10,000 for subsequent offenses. Each sale is considered a separate offense. Prosecutors estimate that the gas station charging $5.50 for regular-grade gas made 230 sales on Nov.1, when the state of emergency was in effect.
And they wonder why there are shortages...
THIS is why Chris Christie is done. It has nothing to do with hugging Obama, it has everything to do with the fact that when it mattered most, he rejected the free market and turned to government to solve (read: create) these problems.
New Jersey has filed lawsuits against eight businesses for allegedly gouging customers with exorbitant prices in the days after Superstorm Sandy roared ashore, the state's attorney general said Friday. The defendants, seven gas stations and a hotel, are accused of hiking their prices from 11 to 59 percent in the days after the storm. One gas station was charging as much as $5.50 a gallon, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa said. The hotel, a Howard Johnson Express in Parsippany, N.J., allegedly raised its room rates to $119 after the storm, up 32 percent from the top rate of $90 just prior to the storm.
WHOA!!! $5.50/gallon?!! Throw these assholes in prison right now!
So I guess standing in line for 6 hours to buy gas at $3.69/gallon is cheaper in the minds of the idiots running NJ. Obviously, they have no sense of opportunity costs.
The defendants face fines of up to $10,000 for their first offenses and $10,000 for subsequent offenses. Each sale is considered a separate offense. Prosecutors estimate that the gas station charging $5.50 for regular-grade gas made 230 sales on Nov.1, when the state of emergency was in effect.
And they wonder why there are shortages...
THIS is why Chris Christie is done. It has nothing to do with hugging Obama, it has everything to do with the fact that when it mattered most, he rejected the free market and turned to government to solve (read: create) these problems.