price gouging

Tom Humphrey lays out the facts on legislation in a "vote sheet". One was regarding a piece of my legislation. Democrats are saying bringing up the votes is a "Lie".

Lets go through one by one and you decide.

Interesting contributions of $300 and $250 dollars respectively from the disclosures of new found champion of the people against Big Oil Becky Ruppe:

TENNESSEE OIL MARKETERS PAC

Should the gas industry pay a price if over 1600 reports of price gouging are proven accurate? What about small business retailers who live and die by daily traffic to their stores? Should they be able to take action against these profiteers?

KnoxViews

It was both encouraging and yet, a bit surreal, to have had this discussion with The Much Younger Trophy Wife on the way home from church yesterday morning and then to see it played out on the InterWebz.

There are numerous reports about gasoline supplies in Tennessee and other southern states, wildly divergent prices and accounts of the why and the how of the changes.

From the Murfreesboro Post:

So, CNN is saying that gas prices in Houston jumped a whopping 20 cents per gallon ahead of Hurricane Ike.

Republican Governor says he's trying to protect against price gouging.