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Price gouging investigated after hurricane.

Publication: The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Publication Date: 28-OCT-05
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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Miami Herald

Byline: Susannah A. Nesmith

Oct. 28--Does $3.38 for a gallon of regular gas sound like too much? How about $3.95 for a gallon of premium?

Isac Oviedo, owner of the Sunoco at the corner of Northwest 54th Street and 32nd Avenue in Brownsville, doesn't think so. And his customers, lined up around the block, weren't in a position to argue.

"It's too much, but I knew that was going to be happening," said Freddie Bailey, a retired elementary school custodian waiting in line in his 1990 Lincoln Town Car. "They got people where they want them. We...

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