Idiocy

The Consumers Foundation (中華民國消費者文教基金會) yesterday urged the government to establish an effective mechanism to forestall the chronic surges in vegetable and fruit price whenever heavy rains or typhoons hit the island.

The foundation also set up a special phone line...to encourage consumers to report cases in which the suppliers, distributors or retailers illegally jack up prices on the market.

Foundation officials stressed that the mechanism should be able to prevent the irrational price hikes beforehand. The measures in the system should include increasing supply from the government's stores and stern crackdown down on the exploitation of middlemen to protect consumers.

Showing the Taiwanese are as dumb as Americans with our blaming Price Gouging. The phrase they should learn is 需求與供給.