Iran imposed gas rationing.

I suspect this is somewhere between IMHO, GQ and GD.

From TuckerFans Thread here.

Huh? How.

Surprise annoucement?

Questions and opinions.

How in the hell do you inact gas rationing with (at one site I saw) 3 hours of notice? It is said that it is limited to 100 liters or about 26 gallons. A month.

A monthly ration? With a days notice?

How could the gas station operators handle this? How could they tell if someone was getting more gas than was allowed per month with only a days notice?

How would you mark the cars with out sending out some sort of gas stamps first?

The only way I think this could be done is if everyone buying gas had to do it on some sort of national gas card.

I hope they are all driving Hummer H1’s (mpg’s ratings are negative if I remember correctly).

Correct me if I’m mistaken but aren’t they just rationing the petrol that’s being sold at the subsidised super-cheap price? Normally-priced petrol isn’t being rationed, is it?

Good old wikipedia, I was looking up the article on Hillman Hunter’s (UK car from the 70s until recently built there) and came up with this list of Iranian cars :stuck_out_tongue:

I can’t find the Economist article they carried on the rationing, perhaps its still at the house.

>Correct me if I’m mistaken but aren’t they just rationing the petrol that’s being sold at the subsidised super-cheap price? Normally-priced petrol isn’t being rationed, is it?

IIRC from an article in the Economist recently, it’s only subsidized sales that are being rationed, and they gave out cards to facilitate this, and this has been a long time coming because of Iran’s deplorable policies concerning technical refining infrastructure.

I read one report that said Iran has limited refinery capacity and that they are trying to build up their fuel reserves for a possible war with the West.

Iran, combatting global warming since 2007 :slight_smile:

They claim not having much oil is the reason for their peaceful pursuit of nuclear energy.

For what it’s worth: They need to import most of their gasoline.

They also want to create some havoc that they can blame on the West. It could be a PR move to get their unstable base behind them and sympathetic to them.

When does the first baby formula factory take a direct hit from a Tomohawk?