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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.
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]
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"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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