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I'm reading a book about the moon being thrown off course after an asteroid hits it. Needless to say, the earth is having some really bad weather. The story is about how folks deal with this kind of situation.
In the book gasoline is at $12.00 a gallon and it has only been a month since the disaster began.
So, I recalled waiting in line at gas stations back in the 70s when the country had gasoline rationing. Not fun. The max you could buy at one time was 5 gallons and the lines were very long. Then it got worse and we could only buy gasoline on certain days based on our license plate numbers.
Do you remember the gasoline rationing? Have you ever had to ration things other than gasoline?
I do remember that time Ketabcha! I was too young to drive, but my parents fussed about it.
After raising my two youngest kids by myself with no financial aid, I feel like the past couple of decades have been a rationing process. I was always giving up this to afford that....and still have to from time to time.
In Australia - from time to time, and in various areas - we have to ration water! Where I live now there are currently no restrictions, but in Sydney just a few years ago, we were not allowed to water gardens outside of certain hours every other day, and then only with a hand-held hose. We had to wash our cars using buckets of water (no hoses) and were not allowed to hose down hard surfaces such as driveways or paths. Restrictions are relaxed or removed depending on how much water there is in the dams.
I have not, but I believe we should. Our over-consumption of goods and services is indicative of our capitalist greed and belies our supposed altruism. Just because some of us can afford to feed our gluttony doesn't mean we should.
We all have our own choices to make, and I do not condone government-enforced rationing, but with each choice we personally make we exact consequences. That's karmic law.
Because so many of us do embrace the idea that we can do as feels good to us, irregardless of the long-term effects on society, our future "karma" gets splayed over everyone.
I believe the attack on the World Trade Center was not about our freedoms, nor our religion, but about our over-consumption and exploitation of foreign resources to satisfy our greed. (After all, it wasn't our churches or our courts that were attacked, but the center of our World Trade.)
If we were to choose to ration ourselves in our consumption, and think about our fellow man as we do ourselves, we might improve the world situation and eliminate the need for the wars we make. Wait a minute, isn't that in effect what all the world's religions tell us? Hmmmm.
I remember gasoline rationing. Also water restrictions. In college the first thing we learned in freshman orientation was "If it's yellow, it's mellow, if it's brown flush it down." Can you believe it? They had all the freshman recite this over and over, and they really hammered home the idea that water was to be rationed.
Also, I remember when our office had one computer for a room of 15 employees and each one of us was allotted only so much time on the computer.
I'm reading a book about the moon being thrown off course after an asteroid hits it. Needless to say, the earth is having some really bad weather. The story is about how folks deal with this kind of situation.
In the book gasoline is at $12.00 a gallon and it has only been a month since the disaster began.
So, I recalled waiting in line at gas stations back in the 70s when the country had gasoline rationing. Not fun. The max you could buy at one time was 5 gallons and the lines were very long. Then it got worse and we could only buy gasoline on certain days based on our license plate numbers.
Do you remember the gasoline rationing? Have you ever had to ration things other than gasoline?
I remember well the gas rationing in the 70s, although it did not affect me directly. I was in college and couldn't afford to have a car anyway, so I had no need to buy gas. I walked or rode a bike everywhere on campus and to my job.
I vaguely remember one time when we had water rationing in NW IN. It was decades ago, and we had a very dry summer. They didn't actually ration water, but they banned sprinkling of lawns. When they did allow sprinkling that summer, it was alternated between homeowners: odd-numbered houses could water lawns on odd-numbered days and even-numbered houses on even-numbered days (or something like that). And sprinkling had to be done in early morning or late evening to keep evaporation at a minimum. It only happened that one season, more than 20 years ago.
Yes I remember clearly the gas rationing in the 70's. I was in a business that depended on gas for traveling and it was a pain waiting to get it. Also remember gas and food rationing during WWII.
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