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To: Lane3 who wrote (24236)	7/17/2012 6:43:19 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Price controls that result in shortages can cause the same effect as the rationing (a reduction in how much people can consume) without any explicit rationing. Rationing is a term with a number of different meanings even if they are related. You even have "rationing by the market" (which I wouldn't normally use, see reason.com ), so you could consider such an effect rationing. OTOH I wouldn't call it that, so technically I'd agree with you that the statement in question is false.