Bill Would Let PUC Regulate Gasoline
From a Times Staff Writer
State Sen. Joe Dunn (D-Santa Ana) reintroduced legislation to give the California Public Utilities Commission the power to regulate gasoline.
Dunn, who pushed for a similar constitutional amendment in 2003, said the bill would allow the PUC as a last resort to institute wholesale price caps like those being launched this week in Hawaii. The oil industry has fought price caps.
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