Bush warns against price gouging on gas
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-09-01 20:18
President George W. Bush warned against price-gouging of gasoline on Thursday in reaction to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and said looters should be treated with zero tolerance.
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U.S. President George W. Bush (R) and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld after Bush spoke in the Rose Garden after a meeting with members of the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Recovery in Washington, D.C. August 31, 2005. [Reuters] |
"I think there ought to be zero tolerance of people breaking the law during an emergency such as this, whether it be looting, or price-gouging at the gasoline pump or taking advantage or charitable giving, or insurance fraud," Bush said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."
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