{"id":3580,"date":"2008-06-25T08:06:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T13:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3580"},"modified":"2008-06-25T08:06:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T13:06:15","slug":"how_to_protect_consumers_from_price_gouging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/how_to_protect_consumers_from_price_gouging.html","title":{"rendered":"How To Protect Consumers From Price Gouging . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/at_the_risk_of_spoiling_my_new_years_resolution_to_be_less_sarcastic.html\">milk price gouging law isn&#8217;t working<\/a>, do the next best thing &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06252008\/news\/regionalnews\/shoppers_get_milked_117028.htm\">raise the price ceiling<\/a>. Problem solved:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The state-controlled price for a gallon of milk in New York City will rise to $4.37 next Tuesday, state regulators said, in the wake of rising fuel costs and diminishing corn supplies. <\/p>\n<p>State agriculture authorities set the loose ceiling of milk prices, based on the cost of farm production. Individual stores can top the milk-price threshold &#8212; now at $3.93 a gallon &#8212; if they can show financial hardships, such as extraordinarily high wholesale, rent or delivery costs. <\/p>\n<p>So in practice, the state-set threshold generally applies to the large supermarkets, while neighborhood bodegas tend to have higher prices, officials said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the milk price gouging law isn&#8217;t working, do the next best thing &#8212; raise the price ceiling. Problem solved: The state-controlled price for a gallon of milk in New York City will rise to $4.37 next Tuesday, state regulators said, in the wake of rising fuel costs and diminishing corn supplies. State agriculture authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}