The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-17

While definite announcement of the details of the plan have not been i made public, it is officially stated that reting devices. To whatever extent may be deemed necessary, the ground already covered by the special fuel committee of the national associa ton will be gone over again in an effort to determine exactly the state of the petroleum industry, particularly with reference to reserve supplies of petro- leum at present held under ground and the possibilities in the way of exploit ing undeveloped oil fields.
 Special opportunity will be given inventors and others who are interest ed in the development of new fuels as substitutes for gasoline to demonstrate not only their applicability to automo- bile propulsion, but also the extent to which they can be produced and the probably relative cost. In this con nection> the Investigators will study fuels such as the new motor spirits, recently placed on the market by the Standard Oil Co.,, of Indinnaa and which is manufactured from residue formerly marketed at a low price as fuel oil
 Coal tar, peat and even vegetable refuse are possible sources of hydro carbon compounds that may be used as fuel that are at present under in vestigation by various authorities. while several companies have recently undertaken the exploitation of fuels declared to be suitable as gasoline substitutes which are not directly de- pendent the petroleum market or which are entirely independent of it. as the case may be. Those interest ed in substitute products, as well as in new processes for increasing the yield Of gasoline and similar products from petroleum itself will be invited to place them before the investigators.
 In a similar way, inventors of car bureters and other devices calculated to adapt the ordinary automobile en- zine to the use of kerosene, distiIlate and similar 1ow-grade fuel will be giv- en opportunity to demonstrate their merits to the satisfaction of the in Vestigators. An important aspect of the work will be a study of carbure- tion methods at present employed with view to determining what mod ifications are necessary in order to cope with the loW-grade gasoline that is available at present, and pending possible relief, from whatever source it may be derived.
 'I consider this an important pub lie york; said President Metzger of the national association in speaking of the investigation. "EIt is for the ben eft of the public quite as much as the
 
 us that we are now getting ffty-e eight gravity gasoline. where a few years ago we were getting sixty-four and sixty eight; and that it will continue to go down until within the next five years we will be getting as low as fifty. Now that is something for which we must be prepared. It is not suffi- cient to develop our present product in such a way as to take care of these low-grade fuels, but we must look af- ter the user There are many thous- and automobiles running to-day that will still be in use next year, and the year after,s and we must see to it that they are provided with some sort of fuel to which they are adapted.
 The oil people with whom we have already been in conference have ex- pressed their willingness to cooperate with us in carrying out this work.
 And most important of a11," he concluded ''is the question of Iocat- ing the fuel supply of the future. It will not be long before we shall have to reckon on supplying a million au- tomo piles with fuel in the United States alone. So that it will not be enough merely to adopt kerosene car bureters, unless we can be sure that the supply of kerosene will, increase as fast as the demand for it increases. That is the great question for which we must find an answer"
 President Howard Marmon, of the Society of Automobile Engineers com municates his views of the undertak- ing briefly, as follows:
 "'The development of improved methods of carburetion, particularly of applicable to heavier grades of fuel, is directly in line with the work in which the so- ciety IS so actively engaged at the present time, though somewhat in ad- vance of any that is at present under way. Under our constitution, the so- ciety is not permitted to engage in any remuneratfve enterprise, nor is it per nnitted to approve or adopt any stand ards of formulas, nor to approve any commercial or engineering enterprise. It is however, empowered to appoint committees to investigate any subjects coming directly within it's field, and to approve or reject the findings of such committees.
 For this reason it would be i'm possible for the society, or any com mittee delegated by it to undertake a study of the fuel question; to approve or recommend the design of any single approve or recommend any proprie- tory fuel compound, or any definite m ethod process of manufacturing a fuel. At the same time it is within 1 the province of the society to under l take an investigation of the laws gov l ernfng carburetion with a. view of de- | termining what physical or chemical | are most desirable in a fuel | and how best it may be applied and to | thus esta blish definite relations be- l tween the requisite ve1ocities, volumes and tenn n1peratures.
 Similarly, 1t is empowered to frame rules for standard methods of