Gouging Quotes

It`s just going to have to come out of my profits for now, and hopefully the prices will drop soon, ... I think this is price gouging. They are trying to get what they can while they can. You have to have gas, so what are you gonna do?

No. No I felt terrible for our customers. I felt terrible for the problems that they had. I understand putting 50 dollars of gas in your tank is a real problem. There was no price gouging in Western New York.

We support legislation to make price gouging illegal, ... But the devil is in the details, and (our support) would depend on the details.

First of all, I`m in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn`t vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

The American people fear there is some gouging going on.

The reality is the people have a hard time believing gouging or collusion is not taking place when they see these spikes, and I have a hard time believing it myself,

With various people complaining about "price gouging'�... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" '” not even when they bulldoze people`s homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.