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Old 06-02-2014, 05:58 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by nemo View Post
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Four gallons per week can you imagine, people would freak.

Rationing on the US Homefront during WW II
If the quota is four gallons per week per wage earner, my wife and son and I would be able to sell some of our quota, as we all ride together and only use about a gallon a day.

Just like the industrialists, you KNOW some savvy carpoolers and hypermilers would turn a paradigm like that to their benefit, because they would have capacity to spare and turn a buck on.

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Actually we would qualify for a B placard for an 8 gallon per week quota, as the wife in her job generates a tremendous amount of recycled textile fiber and sells it along. In a wartime paradigm they'd want her doing that, more and faster.
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