That’s right, I said fuel rationing, IN IRAN. The rationing restrictions, which took effect at midnight local time, are reported to limit private motorists to 100 liters of fuel each month. Given only two hours notice, Iranian motorists are experiencing long lines at filling stations.
At least one filling station in the western suburbs of Tehran has been torched, and early reports hold that three people were killed in the fire.
As you may recall from geography 1101, Iran is situated over one of the largest proven reserves of crude oil in the world. What the liberal professor didn’t tell you was that in spite of the natural resource abundance, Iran has a very constricted refining capacity; So constricted in fact that Iran imports roughly 40% of its gas. The Iranian government subsidizes this imported gas allowing motorists there to purchase fuel at 20% of its market cost. Iranians currently pay a subsidized US11cents per liter for their gas.
This is the part where I go on a long tangent about the obvious advantages of capitalism and wax poetically about why Iran chooses to invest money in “peaceful nuclear programs” instead of building a refinery or two, but I’ll spare my readers the lecture today.
The politics are pretty straight forward. Since Iran has no intention of ceasing its atomic ambitions, they are preparing for the inevitable sanctions on its gas imports.
Perhaps the escalating inflation and cost of living will be enough to make the noble Iranian people say “enough” and force their officials to play ball with the rest of the world. If not, then the sanctions ought to put some extra gas onto the world market, driving prices here in the US down for a while. Either one is fine with me.
On a positive note, this rationing may allow many Iranians to begin training for future careers in the US; taxis and part-time taxis are allocated extra fuel rations.
I am just kidding about the future careers thing. I’d better be nice before I earn my very own fatwa. 
I guess it’s good that they’re not rationing toilet paper.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackUmm….hate to break it to you, but the gas rationing situation is a good reason WHY Iran would want nuclear power, not an argument against it. See, that’s why Iran’s nuclear program was supported and encouraged by the US in the first place.
Hilarious last comments. But back to the real world, Iran government’s strategy was very risky of course, but extremely smart. Lets not forget its war, it has been for 30 years, and apparently Iran’s 2500 years of Evolution, since the persian empire, has taught them quite a bit more than western “journalists” would wish theyd get to learn in a hundred lifetimes, because as far as I know, after 30 years of continuous media propaganda, thanks to which we get fed with *Iran is bad* *Iran is bad* *Iran is bad* on a weekly basis, their revolution is still standing -in spite of the westernly prefabricated Iraq-Iran war-; Iran has become an admirable influential power in the mideast -in spite of the “official” world boycott and westernly prefabricated conflicts in the region-; and instead of being that “threatening and evil regime” people like you and your liberal teacher would wish it was so your biased perspective on the world could still make the little sense it makes, it is a nation based in building bonds with other nations, not in bombing them, or undermining them spreading empty “ideals” which enslave the world population, as other uncivilized powers do to profit from it. Fuel rationing IN IRAN, brings us back to the, “why then such a wonderful and fuel rich country is so badly administered” that you wish to imply. But is it badly administered? Now Iran is one step ahead in further diplomatic negotiations (since the west clearly doesnt have the balls to attack), and the nuclear Iran (which obviously turns into that equivalent of real iranian freedom) goes on. And when Iran reaches its nuclear goals, and all the propaganda system runs out of that annoying *but the world fears Tehran is building nuclear weapons* rubbish that it feels obliged to include on almost every Iran article as part of some sort of brainwashing standard implementation, and everyone realizes that Iran always went for the nuclear power for energetic reasons and not “wiping anyone off any map”, I picture everyone looking at each others faces searching for an explanation, along with many axioms starting to fall appart for that proud press consortium of “writers” who I strongly relate to those who get their historical truths out from Hollywood movies. When the nightmare is then almost over, thats as far as the war goes. Not more blood shed, unfortunately for those who enjoy spreading biased news to get innocents killed and the world to aprove it in heart. Good luck in your further battles: I still admire people like you for having the silly courage of standing on the defeated side.
Hass: Well, you see it one way and I see it another, but if I recall correctly initial US support for Iranian atomic power did not include breeder reactors, AND if they were only interested in power generation, the Iranians could have already completed other types of atomic power plants and had the research, development, and construction costs offset by the UN or Russia. Wanna try again?
German: I’ve never claimed to be unbiased and anyone who does is a big fat liar, but examining the facts of Iran’s “admirable influence” in the region is a disheartening process. They are so awesome that every time there’s an earthquake they have to get international aid to rebound. Their political strategy is so sweet because instead of building refineries and vertically integrating their economy, they chose to import gas, build nuke plants, and funnel arms and cash to Hamas. Maybe 2500 years of evolution haven’t been quite enough.
And HERE’s a follow up: http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1272657,00.html
it looks like at least a dozen filling stations have been destroyed by the Iranian people’s adverse reaction to Tehran’s rationing policy. I can’t wait to find out how it’s all the fault of the US or Israel or maybe Rushdie himself.
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