Venezuela on Friday began a census of car owners, a move the socialist government says will help determine a “rational” use of fuel but critics warn could lead to rationing in the crisis-stricken OPEC nation. Fuel shortages are already frequent in Venezuela, where a fifth straight year of a brutal recession has led to refinery outages and steep falls in oil production. President Nicolas Maduro over the weekend said Venezuela needed “rational” gas use and that a census was “the answer to that.” One top party official also proposed increasing the price of highly subsidized fuel, the world’s cheapest. Details of the government’s plans are scarce and the Information Ministry did not respond to a […]