And here I thought it was just the Anglosphere that had lost their collective minds.
On the other hand this idea would make enforcement much easier than, say, checking ration books and purpose of trip judgement calls by the Garda; just "You are on the road, you are guilty", easy peasy.
From The Irish Independent, June 6:
If fuel rationing is introduced, only designated critical service stations will be stocked with fuel.
People will be ordered to work from home in the event of a major fuel crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine, under secret Government emergency plans.
The Irish Independent has learned confidential details of an emergency planning exercise held 10 days ago between all the major state agencies and the Government.
The high-level planning exercise proposed three fuel supply deficit scenarios, and possible consequences were presented and discussed.
Delegates were given a scenario of a 20pc diesel supply deficit in September and a 35pc drop in supply in December. The third and most extreme scenario proposed for February 2023, is where gas and oil supplies cannot meet the demand for electricity generation or farmers preparing to cut silage.....
....MUCH MORE, including video (in English)
