California lawmakers approved the nation’s first penalty for price gouging at the pump.
The Democrats in charge of the state Legislature worked quickly to pass the bill on Monday, just one week after
Legislative leaders rejected his initial call for a new tax because they feared it could discourage supply and lead to higher prices. "If we force folks to turn over this information, I actually don’t believe we’ll ever need a penalty because the fact that they have to tell us what’s going on will stop them from gouging our consumers," said Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, a Democrat from Orinda.
"There’s truly no other explanation for these historically high prices other than greed," said Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo, a Democrat from Chatsworth. "The problem is we don’t have the information that we need to prove this, and we don’t have the ability to penalize the kind of historic price gouging we saw last year."
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