How Will the War on Terrorism Affect Fuel Prices?

It look less than an hour-and-a-half after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 before reports began to surface of price gouging by gasoline stations in California, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. Some stations were charging as much as $5 a gallon before the stale attorney generals stepped in and threatened to sue for consumer fraud. But this was not a glimpse of things to come.