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That led to fuel shortages and gasoline rationing in the region for several days.
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The government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has recently instituted gasoline rationing among its civilian population, triggering massive popular unrest.
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And now the government has imposed gasoline rationing.
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With power still down in many cities and towns in New York and New Jersey, state and local governments are struggling to ease the gasoline shortage with mandates like rationing.
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Wartime wage-and-price controls were swept away, as was the rationing of food, gasoline and other items.
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After Sandy hit the Northeast last fall, New Jersey, then New York, had to begin even-odd rationing because the storm interrupted gasoline shipments for days.
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But should government set the rationing rules, or leave this task up to customers and gasoline stations?
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Obviously, rationing may be the lesser of two evils, especially in the current gasoline shortage situation where the problem is the limited number of sales points rather the limited supply of the product.
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