Twenty-five gas stations have settled price-gouging claims made against them immediately after Superstorm Sandy hit New York, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Thursday.
Fouad Elmaria was arrested after his USA Gas Station on Dutch Broadway in Elmont posted an overhead price of $3.83 a gallon. But when motorists filled up, the tag on the pump came in at $4.59.
More than 50 Lukoil gas stations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania jacked up prices to more than $8 a gallon Wednesday to protest what they say are unfair pricing practices by Lukoil North America that leave them at a competitive disadvantage.