This resulted in widespread shortages, high prices, and rationing of coal in January and February. The occupiers imposed harsh taxes and strict rationing. There was no parade because of gas rationing and a lumber shortage. The Committee instituted requisitioning, rationing, and conscription to consolidate new citizen armies. Urban areas affected by food shortage adhered to a rationing system. Scarcity was addressed by rationing (as in many countries). In the worst kind of energy crisis energy rationing and fuel rationing may be incurred. The wartime rationing of chocolate ended in 1950, and normal production resumed. Wartime rationing continued, and was extended to bread. Curfews, censorship and food rationing were in place. Government officials aimed to end power rationing before Christmas. In places where the government provides healthcare rationing is explicit. Politicians called for a national gasoline rationing program. Some considered the amount of material to be wasteful, especially after years of cloth rationing. Traffic surged during World War II, which was aided by troop movement and gasoline rationing.