There is no such thing as price gouging. If you can't afford or don't like the price...DON'T BUY IT. This same complaint happens every time there is a hurricane in Florida. When I needed to buy a generator and they were all sold out because the gestapo would fine any retailer that DARED to raise the price, I had to drive 250 miles to get one. If a local merchant had one for sale for 4 times the going rate, I would gladly have paid it. But no, lets protect everyone by keeping the price artificially low. Only problem was you could not by buy one at that mandated low price locally...so there's that. If the price of items are allowed to reach what people are willing to pay (sounds a little like capitalism) , it works out. Price controls cause shortages, not excess supplies. If Tesla cut their prices by 25% the wait time to buy a car would be 10 years instead of 3 to 12 months.