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: Sept. 27, 2005 

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: SENATE DEMOCRATS CRACK DOWN ON GASOLINE PRICE GOUGERS 

:         TRENTON - Three leading Senate Democrats have introduced legislation 
: to crack down on gasoline price gouging by imposing stiff fines on greedy 
: service station owners and the unscrupulous wholesalers who jack up their 
: gas prices multiple times daily. 

:         "We have to send a clear message that heartless profiteers should be 
: fined heavily for their greed," said Senator Nicholas J. Sacco, D-Hudson and 
: Bergen, the Chairman of the Senate  Transportation Committee. 

:         Senator Sacco and Senator Joseph Coniglio, D-Bergen, Chairman of the 
: Senate State Government Committe, have introduced a bill, S-2769, to 
: increase the fine from $50 to up to $1,500 for a first offense by a retail 
: gasoline seller of changing the posted price more than once in a 24-hour 
: period. Subsequent offenses would carry fines of up to $3,000 each. 

:         "In the midst of the last two hurricanes, we've seen the ripoff 
: tendencies of a few bad apples who seemingly hiked their retail gas prices 
: by the hour," said Senator Coniglio. "These  fine levels should be a 
: deterrent to such greedy practices." 

:         Senator Sacco and Senator Joseph Vitale, D-Middlesex, Chairman of 
: the Senate Health,  Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee, also 
: introduced legislation, S-2768, to make it illegal for the first time for 
: gasoline wholesalers to increase their "tank wagon" price of motor fuels 
: sold to retailers more than once in a 24-hour period. 

:         "Some of the suspected gas gougers at the retail level were claiming 
: they were forced to increase their prices multiple times to keep pace with 
: the increases imposed on them by wholesalers," said Senator Sacco. "Well, 
: what's fair for the retailer should be fair for the wholesaler." 

:         Penalties for first time offenders under the Sacco-Vitale proposal 
: would bring guilty wholesalers fines of up to $5,000. Subsequent offenses 
: would carry fines for wholesalers of up to $10,000 for each occurrence. 

:         "Gasoline price gouging is an unconscionable offense against 
: drivers, especially for seniors and others on fixed income who need their 
: cars to get to the store, the pharmacy and to their doctor's offices," said 
: Senator Vitale. 
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