New Jersey

New Jersey investigators are tracking fuel sales on Internet sites as Craigslist, where some posters are offering "a couple of gallons for sale," Jeff Lamm, a spokesman for the state division of consumer affairs in Newark, said by phone yesterday. Such sales would violate the state Motor Fuels Act, which requires that sellers be licensed to dispense fuel.

New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa has issued about 100 subpoenas to businesses accused of price gouging, he said in a statement yesterday.

Roughly 90 percent of reports post-Sandy involve gouging at filling stations, with some locations drawing as many as 25 consumer calls or e-mails to state investigators, who also have received reports about improper charges at hotels and motels, and on sellers of food, water, batteries and flashlights, according to Eric Kanefsky, the acting director of New Jersey's division of Consumer Affairs in Newark.

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