Congressional findings and purposes

serious disruptions have recently occurred in the gasoline and diesel fuel markets of the United States; it is likely that such disruptions will recur; interstate commerce is significantly affected by those market disruptions; an urgent need exists to provide for emergency conservation and other measures with respect to gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, and other energy sources in potentially short supply in order to cope with market disruptions and protect interstate commerce; and up-to-date and reliable information concerning the supply and demand of gasoline, diesel fuel, and other related data is not available to the President, the Congress, or the public. provide a means for the Federal Government, States, and units of local government to establish emergency conservation measures with respect to gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, and other energy sources which may be in short supply; establish other emergency measures to alleviate disruptions in gasoline and diesel fuel markets; obtain data concerning such fuels; and protect interstate commerce. a standby rationing plan for gasoline and diesel fuel should provide, to the maximum extent practicable, that the burden of reduced supplies of gasoline and diesel fuel be shared by all persons in a fair and equitable manner and that the economic and social impacts of such plan be minimized; and such a plan should be sufficiently flexible to respond to changed conditions and sufficiently simple to be effectively administered and enforced.” The Congress finds that— The purposes of this chapter are to— (Source: (Pub. L. 96–102, title II, § 201, Nov. 5, 1979, 93 Stat. 757.))