Rationing System

[Cdnwolf]

While watching Jamie Oliver he was talking about food rationing during WWII in England and I was thinking about how the MilGov or CivGov would go about setting something up.

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[TrailerParkJawa]

I thought you were talking about John Oliver. :)

I would imagine that food rationing isn't going to too different than what the English did or what America did (I believe we had some rationing, yes?).

The first thing that comes to my mind however is the neither Milgov or CivGov really don't have any amount of control of large populations. Howling Wilderness shows the surviving numbers of troops in California in say the thousands. If there are still millions of people living here that's not much abiltiy to tell anyone how or what to eat.

One thing I imagined on my own was to borrow from City of Krakow. Local Milgov forces will pay you in a script that equals 1 meal. For instance you show up at an encampment with 6 pints of 10-40w motor oil you found in a collapsed house. In exchange the give you 6 ration scripts which is 2 days of meals.

[LT. Ox]

I thought you were talking about John Oliver. :)

I would imagine that food rationing isn't going to too different than what the English did or what America did (I believe we had some rationing, yes?).

The first thing that comes to my mind however is the neither Milgov or CivGov really don't have any amount of control of large populations. Howling Wilderness shows the surviving numbers of troops in California in say the thousands. If there are still millions of people living here that's not much abiltiy to tell anyone how or what to eat.

One thing I imagined on my own was to borrow from City of Krakow. Local Milgov forces will pay you in a script that equals 1 meal. For instance you show up at an encampment with 6 pints of 10-40w motor oil you found in a collapsed house. In exchange the give you 6 ration scripts which is 2 days of meals.
Almost everything was rationed in the USA during the War. big stuff was Gas and tires. but eggs butter and sweets were tuff to get I have been told.
A lot of the rationing was to get people to think they were part of the BIG picture and making sacrafices like "the boys over there"

[Blink_Dog]

I would think that rationing would start prior to events in the game say around '97 or so, in North America and other NATO countries and last at least on a national level til '99. After that point local government and military units would have to assert more direct control. With alcohol fuel being made in large scale operations grains and corn would be rationed. It might eventually turn into more of a soup kitchen type system as keeping tabs on the logistics would be easier.

There may even be programs started in areas where people are forced to grow on any decent land their own "victory gardens" in order to make food needs met.

An organization like New America could easily gain power in an area if they were to provide the population with food in exchange for citizenship (labour), a local cell would have stock piled a few tons of MREs and long term food with stored seeds and farming equipment. The alternative in some areas would be starvation.