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Updated: 12:04 AM Sep 14, 2008
Governor Signs Order to Stop Price Gouging
Kentucky's governor has signed an order declaring a state of emergency and invoking the state's anti-price gouging law as Hurricane Ike bears down on the Texas coast. Posted: 1:36 PM Sep 12, 2008 |
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky's governor has signed an order
declaring a state of emergency and invoking the state's anti-price
gouging law as Hurricane Ike bears down on the Texas coast.
Gov. Steve Beshear signed the order on Friday, saying gas stations started raising fuel prices overnight before the storm made landfall.
Beshear signed the order at the request of Attorney General Jack
Conway, who said in a letter released Friday that invoking the law now will help prevent predatory pricing.
Conway's spokeswoman Allison Martin said the Attorney General's
office has received reports of gas rising to $4.20 in some locations and exceeding $4.50 others.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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This has done more for the environment than Al Gore ever dreamed of.Less cars on the road Less emissions maybe the LORD is cleaning things up.Look on the bright side you don't have to pack all that money around let the oil gods do it for you.
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James from Salyersville said: "When I hear a politician claim he is interestd in what happens to the common man, I get goose bumps!? I'll have to disagree with you James; I actually get Diarrhea!
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Big Oil will find a way to get the money. If Frankfort is, which we know better because it is not, interested in the common person, they would drop some of their taxes from oil prdoucts we must have. Especially, home heating this winter where kerosene/fuel oil is bouncing around five dollars per gallon, Kerosene is supposed to bea a cheap bi-product in the making of gasoline, but those fat cats in Frankfort make sure they they reap their profits no matter what the common person has to pay! When I hear a politician claim he is interestd in what happens to the common man, I get goose bumps!
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