That has led to rationing and long lines at filling stations , disrupting cargo shipments .
这样导致定量配给和加油站前面排着长长的队伍,阻碍了货物的运输。
The rationing of foreign exchange has made importing harder , fuelling scarcity , inflation and a flourishing black market dollars sell for about four times the cheapest official rate .
Instead of encouraging new ways of delivering care , austerity has prompted rationing : the number of patients waiting longer than the 18-week target for hospital appointments has jumped by over 40 % .
The social and economic structure of a stalinist society collapsed . Antiquated iron mills and power plants ground to a halt , and the rationing system did not provide enough food for the average citizen to survive .
Further-flung family members would also have found their journeys home difficult , as travel restrictions were beginning to bite ; in september petrol rationing had been introduced , and rail travel was discouraged .
The government started rationing all sorts of goods , so they could be used to fight the nazis instead . Bananas were among these items , because apparently you can 't stop a blitzkrieg without bananas .
Just as the hardship of postwar rationing taught a generation of britons to waste not , want not , grow their own and make ends meet , today 's youngsters are learning tough lessons that will last a lifetime .
That has raised the prospect of long-term rationing and rising prices in a country where companies already pay 40 per cent more for electricity than do their peers in the us and 2.5 times more than south korean groups , a consequence , in part , of the power sector 's monopolistic structure .
The intuitive explanation , of course , is that we irrationally object to high prices even when the alternative is rationing , long queues , and uncertainty over whether we can buy what we really want .