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<tr><td><b>Comment Number: </b></td><td>535819-00104</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Received: </b></td><td>6/6/2008 7:14:56 PM</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Organization: </b></td><td>individual</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Commenter: </b></td><td>Harold Ducote</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>State: </b></td><td>CA</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Agency: </b></td><td>Federal Trade Commission</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Rule: </b></td><td>Prohibitions On Market Manipulation and False Information in Subtitle B of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 
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<hr><P><b>Comments:</b></p>How about an investigation of price gouging in the recent gasoline price increases. The petroleum industry, who has received great protection from the government of the united states, has done nothing but gouge us, the consuming public. Please do something about this. A republican voter</body></html>