Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:57:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:57:25 -0400 From: Kevin Wayne Williams User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Wish I could buy gas References: <53f3a243-33df-4475-a449-0bb65d2c1906@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Trace: sv3-MLEHFc74CsCDbn1IY3eYl3elTjqQwWUSroWKK31UVLfV2/e/WOuOR/qMwsJFJFtM32o1GZUp9E1RAqz!Ph48XYaps7YDo7TDl5Wv2UYHeX6tix339BrMUgbQ3//rYRUp2zEv7vEvXdQVkdMO4Qcup7Px X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:167540 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