<Li> 4 July 1954: Meat and all other food rationing ended in Britain . </Li> <P> Although rationing formally ended in 1954, cheese production remained depressed for decades afterwards . During rationing, most milk in Britain was used to make one kind of cheese, nicknamed Government Cheddar (not to be confused with the government cheese issued by the US welfare system). This wiped out nearly all other cheese production in the country, and some indigenous varieties of cheese almost disappeared . Later government controls on milk prices through the Milk Marketing Board continued to discourage production of other varieties of cheese until well into the 1980s, and it was only in the mid-1990s (following the effective abolition of the MMB) that the revival of the British cheese industry began in earnest . </P> <P> Petrol rationing was briefly reintroduced in late 1956 during the Suez Crisis but ended again on 14 May 1957 . Advertising of petrol on the recently introduced ITV was banned for a period . </P> <P> Petrol coupons were issued for a short time as preparation for the possibility of petrol rationing during the 1973 oil crisis . The rationing never came about, in large part because increasing North Sea oil production allowed the UK to offset much of the lost imports . By the time of the 1979 energy crisis, the United Kingdom had become a net exporter of oil, so on that occasion the government did not even have to consider petrol rationing . </P>

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