> As far as I can tell, all they do is simply limit supply. I'd seriously consider loading up a 53 foot trailer full of generators and drive them 2000 miles to Florida some years if it were legal to sell them at 2-3x retail. But it's not, so I don't bother as it's not worth my time and immense financial risk.

If you were really willing do to this, could you be so kind as to share your prognostication for where future disaster will strike with disaster planners? For you see, that task would require you at least 5 days of advance planning (assuming you were a champ at locating and ultimately selling them), probably more than a week in any actual executable plan. Even for well-forecast hurricanes, that is pushing it for advance notice.