An article in this today's North Platte Bulletin has caught my eye.  It seems that the Nebraska Department of Weights and Measures has caught several gas stations selling ethanol products as premium gasoline.  This sort of fraud may or not go undetected when the price of fuel is half what it is now, but in these troubled times there will be little tolerance shown for fraud.

 

Md AG Doug Gansler's threat to sue car rental companies for excessive per gallon charges - some "Don't Gas Up" charges were hitting $8 a gallon in Maryland - has brought some relief and an article about the practice in USA Today.   Gansler's move is generating discussion among his colleagues at this week's National Attorney General Association (NAAG) conference.  If the practice is not curtailed, I would expect other state AG's will act.