Georgia issues 20 letters of notice to gas stations
09/07/05
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — The Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs has sent 20 letters of notice to gasoline stations deemed to be violating the governor's rules on price gouging.
The office has received at least 1,000 complaints since Gov. Sonny Perdue warned stations against price gouging last week, spokesman Bill Cloud said.
The office has sent 20 notices contemplating legal action and to give station operators a chance to explain the prices they are charging, Cloud said. The stations that received notices are centered in metro Atlanta, with a few in south Georgia, Cloud said.
The fuel industry has been a favorite target of jaded motorists and irate politicians since last week, when gas prices skyrocketed to as high as $6 a gallon after Hurricane Katrina disrupted gas shipments from the Gulf Coast.
On Friday, Perdue ordered a monthlong moratorium on state gas taxes and called legislators into a special session Tuesday to ratify the decision. The governor's order suspends Georgia's 7.5 cents-a-gallon excise tax and 4 percent sales tax on gasoline until the end of September.
He also signed an executive order authorizing state sanctions against gas stations that gouge consumers.
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — The Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs has sent 20 letters of notice to gasoline stations deemed to be violating the governor's rules on price gouging.
The office has received at least 1,000 complaints since Gov. Sonny Perdue warned stations against price gouging last week, spokesman Bill Cloud said.
The office has sent 20 notices contemplating legal action and to give station operators a chance to explain the prices they are charging, Cloud said. The stations that received notices are centered in metro Atlanta, with a few in south Georgia, Cloud said.
The fuel industry has been a favorite target of jaded motorists and irate politicians since last week, when gas prices skyrocketed to as high as $6 a gallon after Hurricane Katrina disrupted gas shipments from the Gulf Coast.
On Friday, Perdue ordered a monthlong moratorium on state gas taxes and called legislators into a special session Tuesday to ratify the decision. The governor's order suspends Georgia's 7.5 cents-a-gallon excise tax and 4 percent sales tax on gasoline until the end of September.
He also signed an executive order authorizing state sanctions against gas stations that gouge consumers.
posted by Webmaster at 9/07/2005 07:52:00 AM
1 Comments:
Now the next question should be why the gas prices in general have not gone down at all, even though the pipeline that supplied the gas is now at 100% operation? We've only seen the price decrease cause the taxes were taken out. And that's it.
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