* December 1 – Gasoline rationing begins in the United States.

Gasoline rationing limited the use of automobiles, resulting in increased usage of public transit.

However, it should be noted many short tracks used CAM2 ( now Sunoco ) Racing Gasoline, even in the 1970s.

Gasoline and automobile tires were rationed commodities.

The first strip to feature aging characters was Gasoline Alley.

But when Trudeau returned to Doonesbury, the characters began to age in something close to real time, as in Gasoline Alley and For Better or for Worse.

** Otto cycle ( e. g. Gasoline / Petrol engine, high-speed diesel engine )

Gasoline engine ignition systems generally rely on a combination of a lead – acid battery and an induction coil to provide a high-voltage electric spark to ignite the air-fuel mix in the engine's cylinders.

Gasoline engines take in a mixture of air and gasoline and compress it to not more than 12. 8 bar ( 1. 28 MPa ), then use a spark plug to ignite the mixture when it is compressed by the piston head in each cylinder.

Gasoline engines are used in most other road vehicles including most cars, motorcycles, and mopeds.

Gasoline was used for cold starts and when extra power was needed, but normally it ran on kerosene or turpentine.

Gasoline locomotives have been produced since the early 1900s.

Later Mobil campaigns advertised Mobilgas as the " New Car Gasoline " following extensive testing during the annual Mobilgas Economy Run.

During the early 1970s, Mobil ran a TV commercial featuring a character known as " Mr. Dirt " to show the ruinous effects that dirt had on automotive engines for which a tank of Mobil Detergent Gasoline could provide a cure and preventive medicine against damage that could lead to costly repairs.

Metering pump for gasoline and Gasoline additive | additive s.

Gasoline, or petrol is a transparent petroleum-derived liquid that is primarily used as a fuel in internal combustion engines.

Gasoline is more volatile than diesel oil, Jet-A, or kerosene, not only because of the base constituents, but also because of additives.

Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing | Gas prices in late May 2008.

Later, Dick Tracy appeared in the comic strip Gasoline Alley.

Gasoline engines can be modified to run on tractor vaporizing oil ( TVO ) and such engines were once common in tractors.

Gasoline sprayed across the area, and soon ignited, killing 9, and injuring at least 14 others.

* The Sheryl Crow song " Gasoline ", from her 2008 album Detours, describes a global oil shortage in 2017.

For example approximate prices ( as on January 2010 ) of Gasoline ( Petrol ) is 5 US $ per Liter, electricity prices close to 0. 33 US $ per unit, A domestic gas bottle ( or gas cylinder ) is slightly over 20 US $, Rent for average family accommodation, two bedroom apartment-approximately US175-US $ 200 per month in safe ( Georgetown city center ) locations and personal income tax, which is 33. 33 % ( one third ) of total taxable income ( amount that exceeds approximately G $ 20, 000 ( US $ 100 ) adds to the difficulties.

A " Special Period in Peacetime " was declared, which included cutbacks on transport and electricity and even food rationing.

Between petrol rationing and limited public transport the streets and roads were almost empty of vehicles, with many children cycling or even walking as far as Cardiff daily to attend school.

However, this particular strip had a surprisingly short lifespan ; it is believed that it may have even lasted a mere two issues ( issue 306, dated 5 April 1947, and issue 307, dated 19 April, the fortnightly dates due to paper rationing at the time ) before it disappeared, the reason being unknown.

That evening, Letitia arranges a birthday party for Bunny, complete with all Bunny's friends and even a chocolate cake ; this was while rationing was still in effect in England — butter and eggs were hard to come by even in a rural community, and chocolate was quite rare.

For example, both Moscow and Leningrad, which were heavily visited by foreigners, were supplied much better than the rest of the country and did not have rationing until the late 1980s.

World War II brought rationing, and the company briefly had to drop cans altogether and resort to using green glass in its bottles rather than the standard amber color, which offered better protection from light.

Bubble and squeak was a popular dish during World War II, as it was an easy way of using leftovers during a period when most foods were subject to rationing.

This resulted in strict rationing of food and other essential goods continuing in the post war period to force a reduction in consumption in an effort to limit imports, boost exports, and stabilise the Pound Sterling so that Britain could trade its way out of its financial state.

Opponents of the current reform care proposals fear that U. S. comparative effective research ( a plan introduced in the stimulus bill ) will be used to curtail spending and ration treatments, which is one function of NICE, arguing that rationing by market pricing rather by government is the best way for care to be rationed.

Den Uyl said in a speech on national television that " things would never return to the way they were " and implemented fuel rationing and a ban on Sunday driving.

According to policy conclusions of the Overseas Development Institute the voucher for coupon system can be an effective way of rationing and targeting subsidy access to maximize production and economic and social gains.

Thus the polarization between servicemen and pachucos was immediately visible: the chino shirt and battledress were evidently uniforms of patriotism, whereas wearing a zoot-suit was a deliberate and public way of flouting the regulations of rationing.

* A way for Federation citizens to barter for objects that cannot be replicated, such as live animals, such as in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " The Trouble with Tribbles ", or for services that are far too costly to be given away freely, such as hiring the services of an entire starship ( Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ), or for the use of facilities ( such as public transporters ) that are in high demand and must have a method of rationing their access, such as in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Explorers ".

For Bordiga, both stages of socialist or communist society ( sometimes distinguished as " socialism " and " communism ") were characterised by the ( gradual ) absence of money, the market, and so on, the difference between them being that earlier in the first stage a system of ' rationing ' would be used to allocate goods to people, while in communism this could be abandoned in favour of full free access.

American farmer Dan West, the founder of Heifer International, was serving as a Church of the Brethren relief worker in Spain during the Spanish Civil War when he became frustrated at being forced to decide how to allocate the very limited rations of milk to refugees ( see rationing, triage ).

Meals usually consisted of hot rice and vegetables, since meat was scarce due to rationing.

The field of bioethics has addressed a broad swath of human inquiry, ranging from debates over the boundaries of life ( e. g. abortion, euthanasia ), surrogacy, the allocation of scarce health care resources ( e. g. organ donation, health care rationing ) to the right to refuse medical care for religious or cultural reasons.

Though the resident governor general's wife, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, could do little to add her personal touch to Rideau Hall, due to rationing and scarce supplies, she put many of the other royal ladies to work making clothing for those who had lost their homes in the Blitz.

During World War II, candy was scarce at concession stands because of the sugar rationing going on at the time, and popcorn became more popular than before.

Montelepre was a very poor town, and in this period, food was very scarce and often had to be purchased on the black market because of the strict rationing laws that starved the people of Sicily.