Not content to argue that bloggers should face additional threats of libel suits, Sen. Steve Goss, D-Watauga, has filed a bill to extend North Carolina’s ill-conceived price-gouging law.

The law now applies only in the case of declared disasters and emergencies, but Goss would like to see price-gouging restrictions put in place under any circumstances.?

Perhaps the senator didn’t hear Roy Cordato’s description last fall of the impact of price-gouging legislation on gas lines and shortages.