DOJ Urges States to Enforce Fuel Price-Gouging Laws

The Trump administration is taking its campaign against high gasoline prices to the states, and it’s doing it formally.

A little more than a week after President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate possible price gouging at the pump, federal antitrust regulators have formally asked state attorneys general to join the effort, warning that oil market volatility is no excuse for anticompetitive behavior.