Response to high gasoline prices

100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care
Press Release
RESPONDING TO HIGH GASOLINE PRICES - BLACK LAW ENFORCEMENT GROUP CALLS ON THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS TO IMPLEMENT A GASOLINE INTEGRITY PLAN

For Immediate Release

Contact:
Marq Claxton
917-335-3179

Press Briefing: Members of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care will hold a press conference to call on the Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs to implement a gas integrity plan.  We are responding to numerous calls made to our office  from motorists who have voiced their concerns over the quality of gasoline.  100 Blacks in Law Enforcement believes the Department of Consumer Affairs should take the following steps to ensure the quality and integrity of gasoline sales:

• Increase the number of field inspectors assigned to monitor the quality of gasoline
• Increase the number of field inspections in regards to pricing irregularities
• List on the Department of Consumer Affairs website the names of gas stations that are found to be in violation of gasoline quality/pricing regulations
• Conduct random cost analysis to determine if price gouging is occurring and if economically deprived communities are being redlined for higher gas prices
• Create a complaint hotline for motorists to report abuses in pricing or gas quality
• Recommend a substantial increase in penalty for those establishments that are found to be in violation of regulations
• Recommend a doubling of fines for repeated violators of quality/pricing irregularities