Australia has been forced to conserve and even ration fuel several times in its history.
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Fuel shortages are rising worldwide, and some countries have started rationing fuel. Wartime rationing offers a model for managing scarcity more fairly.
Historians attribute the Coalition’s election victory in 1949 to issues like bank nationalisation and the Communist Party. But the decisive issue was petrol rationing.
