Today’s banknote is again not a banknote but a coupon. It comes from a much earlier time many of you won’t know and times were much tougher. These are rations from World War II era. The Japanese had seized plantations in the Dutch East Indies that produced 90% of America's raw rubber. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called on citizens to contribute scrap rubber, old tires, old rubber raincoats, garden hose, rubber shoes, bathing caps, etc. The OPA (Office of Price Administration) established the Idle Tire Purchase Plan, and could deny Mileage Rations to anyone owning passenger tires not in use. The national maximum “Victory Speed” was 35 miles an hour. “Driving clubs” or carpools were encouraged. A magazine ad declared, “Your Car is a War Car Now.” There were several letters on the rations. Soon gasoline itself would become in short supply but initially it was a way to limit wear on tires and reducing the demand for rubber in the homeland.
A= Personal Vehicles limit to 4 gallons per week; (Shown Below)
B= Cars used in the war effort, 8 gallons per week; (Shown Below)
C=physicians, ministers, mail carriers and railroad workers, farm equipment, and incidentally were the most counterfeited type;
D=Motocycles;
T= Transportation, trucks, busses, etc ;
X= Members of Congress and other VIPs, Unrestricted.

There were 4 books issued with rations for all restricted commodities and spares for commodities that would become rationed at a later time. Rubber ans sugar were the first commodities to be impacted but today I am focusing only on gasoline rations. ENJOY!