PETROL RATIONING
SIR,—For months I have waited with 'growing impatience for the Press to take up cudgels on. behalf of the motoring community in this matter of petrol-rationing, and it was therefore with great satisfaction that I read your paragraph on the subject in a recent issue. The present Government's handling of this matter has been characterised by that secrecy and evasiveness which is an all too common feature of its attitude to M.P.s and the public. It has become quite obvious that, whatever is the reason for the continued rationing of petrol, it is not the one given by Ministers shortage of dollars or tankers. The real reasons are difficult for anyone not a Socialist to fathom, but clearly there is some Socialist bee buzzing in Ministerial bonnets. The motor-car has long ago ceased to be the luxury toy of the idle rich, but is part of theatecessary equipment of civilised life ; and it is out- rageous that in so important a matter we should be continually fobbed off by evasions and downright untruths. If there is a sound reason for the continued restrictions, there is no need to conceal it. The obvious inference is that the Government has something to hide and dare not be frank. It is to be hoped that Members of Parliament and the Press will continue to agitate on this matter until either a satisfactory explanation is forthcoming or the reductions are withdrawn.—I am, yours, &c.,
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