Should Gasoline Price Gougers Be Punished?

Hurricane Katrina is the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Katrina destroyed imports of crude oil and caused a number of refineries in its path to shut down temporarily. It prompted denunciation by politicians of greedy refiners and gasoline dealers, and proposals for federal legislation prohibiting "unconscionably excessive" gasoline price increases. Many states have an anti-gouging law set in place during disasters. But yet just a year before all of this occurred the price of gas was around nearly a dollar eighty. Now gas is almost a dollar and fifty cents more. That is why gasoline price gougers should be punished. It is already the law and it causes the economy to become more unstable.
What makes us decide which laws we should enforce and which ones not? The government makes things a law because they think that it will make our country or community a better place. The problem we as people is that "price gouging," goes undefined in the legislation, it could be punished with civil and criminal sanctions that include a $150,000,000 fine and imprisonment for up to two years. Just because we don’t understand why something is the way it is. It doesn’t give us the right to not enforce it. The law is the law. It affects everything we do. The common law has limited crimes to conduct which is inherently wrong, and in which the accused acted with a malicious intent. Therefore, price gouging should be enforced because it already is a law. You should enforce the law no matter how little or big it