Jim Breen wrote:
> Years ago I went to a one-day seminar on Lateral Thinking given by
> Edward de Bono. He used a recent case of a petrol/gas crisis as an
> example of a lack of lateral thinking. In the crisis the government had
> put a limit on the amount you could buy - I think it was capped at about
> 20 litres. He said in fact there was a vast amount already sloshing
> around in people's tanks, and the best way to get through the crisis
> would have been to encourage people to use it up before dashing off and
> buying more. Rather than putting an *upper* limit on purchases, it
> would have been better to put a *lower* limit, e.g. 50 litres. (It
> would have been hard to police, of course, but I think he was right
> in principle.)

I guess I could buy a couple of 10-liter jugs to put in the back of the
Morris so I could have somewhere to put 50 liters of gas.
KWW