Customers across North Carolina have seen lines at gas pumps in recent weeks, and many saw bags over empty gas pumps since Hurricane Ike. John Locke Foundation Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar Roy Cordato fixed the blame on the state’s price-gouging law, which acts as a de facto price-control measure by threatening gas station owners with prosecution if they follow the economic rules of supply and demand. Cordato’s work attracted statewide attention. He granted a television interview to Bob Buckley of the Triad Fox affiliate WGHP and radio interviews to Tara Servatius (WBT), Bill LuMaye (WPTF), Matt Mittan (WWNC), and Allan Handelman (WZTK). Cordato’s information also attracted attention from the News & Observer‘s transportation reporter, Bruce Siceloff, and the Fayetteville Observer (which also devoted space this week to promote the upcoming Fayetteville JLF Headliner event featuring retired Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney). Locke President John Hood also debunked price-gouging myths in an interview with the Henderson Daily Dispatch.