Rationing

This day in history (1942) is known as the day in which the United States placed an official restriction as to how much each individual person could purchase in a number of different goods areas . So why did this come about? It came about after we entered into WWII and the Japanese had strategically taking control of the Dutch East Indies. Perhaps the most dramatic impact this had was that it rationed the amount of gasoline you could purchase, maxing most drivers out at 4 gallons per week, and a maximum national speed limit was set at 35. Yep, that picture below is for real and the funniest thing about it all was that it was due to a fear of the loss of rubber...not gasoline!

I guess that probably wasn't so bad because for the 3 years that went on, we probably gained back a little of our ozone...but that's a whole new debate.