elected to ration grain between the fall of 1943 and spring 1944. Egypt introduced a ration card-based subsidy of essential foodstuffs in 1945 that has persisted into the 21st century. New Zealand rationing in began in 1942 and was abolished on most foods in 1948, but continued on butter until 1950. Many countries had gasoline rationing that determined how much gasoline could be filled in a fuel tank, depending on whether the driver was essential to the war effort. An example rationing system is the following: G1 stickers can have up to of gas. G2 stickers can have up to of gas. G3 stickers can have up to of gas. G4 stickers can have up to of gas. G5 stickers can have up to of gas, for their war effort. G6 stickers can have up to of gas, for their war effort, doctors, school staff, school district staff, church head, newsreel equipment delivery, and other people got these. T1 stickers can have up to of gas. T2 stickers can have unlimited amounts of gas, for their war effort. A stickers can have up to of gas, for getting that optional milage ration. B stickers can have up to of gas, for getting that optional milage ration. C stickers can have up to of gas, for getting that optional milage ration. X1 stickers can have unlimited amounts of gas, for their war effort. X2 stickers can have unlimited amounts of gas, for getting that optional milage ration. Peacetime rationing Civilian peacetime rationing of food has been employed after natural disasters, during contingencies, or after failed governmental economic policies regarding production or distribution, as well as due to extensive austerity programs implemented to cut or restrict public spending in countries where the rationed goods previously relied on government procurement or subsidies, as was the case in Israel. In the United Kingdom, the rationing system remained in place for years after the end of the War. In some respects it was more strict after the war than during it—two major foodstuffs that were never rationed during the war, bread and potatoes, were rationed after it (bread from 1946 to 1948, and potatoes for a time from 1947). Tea was still rationed until 1952. In 1953 rationing of sugar and eggs ended, and in 1954, all rationing finally ended when cheese and meats came off ration. Sugar was again rationed in 1974 after Caribbean