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]

"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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