Should Gasoline Price Gougers Be Punished?
Hurricane Katrina is the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Katrina destroyed imports of crude oil and caused a number of refineries in its path to shut down temporarily. It prompted denunciation by politicians of greedy refiners and gasoline dealers, and proposals for federal legislation prohibiting "unconscionably excessive" gasoline price increases. Many states have an anti-gouging law set in place during disasters. But yet just a year before all of this occurred the price of gas was around nearly a dollar eighty. Now gas is almost a dollar and fifty cents more. That is why gasoline price gougers should be punished. It is already the law and it causes the economy to become more unstable.
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A law is the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
What makes us decide which laws we should enforce and which ones not? The government makes things a law because they think that it will make our country or community a better place. The problem we as people is that "price gouging," goes undefined in the legislation, it could be punished with civil and criminal sanctions that include a $150,000,000 fine and imprisonment for up to two years. Just because we don’t understand why something is the way it is. It doesn’t give us the right to not enforce it. The law is the law. It affects everything we do. The common law has limited crimes to conduct which is inherently wrong, and in which the accused acted with a malicious intent. Therefore, price gouging should be enforced because it already is a law. You should enforce the law no matter how little or big it
is.
The economy becomes so unstable when commodities become higher. Gasoline is something that basically everyone now a day needs. Just to get from point A to point B people use gasoline for the most part. It is in people’s budget. So, if people are already struggling with money because a disaster or something happened then when someone raises prices for something that everyone needs then it causes us to give more of our money to the gas budget.
Price-gougers should be punished because if a law is a law then it should be enforced. Nothing should ever be over looked because it is highly looked at. Also, price-gougers cause our economy to become more unstable. It makes us spend less of our money on things that could be helping us get the economy back on track. Don’t let this gasoline price gougers get away with making our life more rocky.
A law is the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
What makes us decide which laws we should enforce and which ones not? The government makes things a law because they think that it will make our country or community a better place. The problem we as people is that "price gouging," goes undefined in the legislation, it could be punished with civil and criminal sanctions that include a $150,000,000 fine and imprisonment for up to two years. Just because we don’t understand why something is the way it is. It doesn’t give us the right to not enforce it. The law is the law. It affects everything we do. The common law has limited crimes to conduct which is inherently wrong, and in which the accused acted with a malicious intent. Therefore, price gouging should be enforced because it already is a law. You should enforce the law no matter how little or big it
is.
The economy becomes so unstable when commodities become higher. Gasoline is something that basically everyone now a day needs. Just to get from point A to point B people use gasoline for the most part. It is in people’s budget. So, if people are already struggling with money because a disaster or something happened then when someone raises prices for something that everyone needs then it causes us to give more of our money to the gas budget.
Price-gougers should be punished because if a law is a law then it should be enforced. Nothing should ever be over looked because it is highly looked at. Also, price-gougers cause our economy to become more unstable. It makes us spend less of our money on things that could be helping us get the economy back on track. Don’t let this gasoline price gougers get away with making our life more rocky.