The Importance Of Rationing In The United States

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rationing Rationing is most commonly put with food, when rationing can apply to any like medicine, scarce resources and gasoline. Rationing has been happening forever, every country has had to ration supplies at some point. It could have been because of drought, a natural disaster or even war. Rationing doesn't only happen in developing countries, it can just as easily happen in a developed country. The last major rationing in the United States was the oil crisis during the cold war because of increased tensions with Iran, the U.S. government put a ration a gasoline only allowing people so much at a time. Rationing for the most part is beneficial because its protecting scarce resources from being consumed too fast. But sometimes
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