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    "title": "Christie Orders Odd-Even Rationing System For Filling Up Gas Tanks",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Residents with license plates ending in an odd number can make gas purchases on odd-numbered days of the month Residents with plates ending in an even number will be able to buy gas on even-numbered days, the governor said.</p>\n<p>Specialized plates or those not displaying a number will be considered odd numbered plates, a release from the governor\u00e2\u0080\u0099s office stated.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Instead, let sellers raise prices to something more in line with supply/demand curve. If that means $20/gallon, so be it. The pricing will make sure people know how valuable the resource is, and cause them to re-evaluate their use of gasoline. Then everybody gets at least some of what they *actually need*.  Heartless? <a href=\"http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/01/munger_on_price_1.html\">Hardly.</a></p>\n<p>Via <em><a href=\"http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/11/02/christie-shoreline-destruction-heartbreaking-for-every-new-jerseyan/\">Christie Orders Odd-Even Rationing System For Filling Up Gas Tanks \u00c2\u00ab CBS New York</a></em>.</p>\n"
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