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House passes fuel price-gouging bill
Published: Friday, May 20th, 2022 @ 11:26 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Laws that forbid price increases during extreme events have bad unintended consequences at the very worst of times. Precisely because of those consequences, economists and pundits at the John Locke Foundation have warned against those laws for decades
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2018 @ 11:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The forecast for Hurricane Florence looks bleak. It's hard to imagine as of this writing, but if the storm proceeds the way it's predicted to go, then by next week people's lives and neighborhoods in many areas of the state, from the coastal towns to the central Piedmont, will be radically altered
Published: Thursday, September 20th, 2018 @ 12:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In anticipation of a forecast of cold weather, Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order today to help maintain supply of home heating fuels like propane across North Carolina
Published: Friday, December 29th, 2017 @ 12:42 pm
By: Governor's Office
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A state of emergency in Dare and Hyde counties puts into effect a state law protecting people from price gouging
Published: Tuesday, August 1st, 2017 @ 3:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Our administration is taking all necessary precautions to reduce the impact of the pipeline disruption on North Carolina," Governor McCrory said. "The Colonial Pipeline disruption is a transportation challenge, not a production challenge.
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 11:14 am
By: McCrory Communications
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After Hurricane Fran swept through central North Carolina in 1996, enterprising college students drove into the area with $8 bags of ice. That was a much higher price than people normally would have paid, but those with no electricity because of the storm lined up to buy ice. Transactions...
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 10:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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