rationing

But he said that even rationing might not be enough to prevent a disaster.

Both took an almost perverse pride in going without, as if they remained under a permanent system of wartime rationing.

Ukraine has struck Russian energy infrastructure throughout the nearly four-year war but has intensified its attacks in recent months, causing petrol prices to spike and forcing some regions to introduce fuel rationing.

This summer, the matcha dealer called to say that after a decade of importing from Japan, she had been forced to start rationing supply.

Energy supplies would last longer if electricity rationing is imposed, a step that would ripple through Taiwanese manufacturing, including the semiconductor industry, whose shutdown would have a global impact.