The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-22
SUBSTITUTE MUST | BE FOUND ID TAKE GASOL|NE'S PLACE Ever Increasing Number of
 Gasoline Burning Motors
 Brings Grave Problem DEMAND MAY SOON
 EXCEED THE SUPPLY Scientists Working on Plans to Utilize Kerosene-Testing Engineer of Tennessee Company Dis- cusses Situation

Ever increasing motor power of the United States has made the demand fol gasoline so heavy that it has become necessary to find a substitute, accord ing to William L. White, testing engi- neer In the laboratory of the Ten nessee Coal. Iron and Railroad com pany at Ensley. MT. White cites fig ures showing that the invention of a substitute for gasoline must be found or motorists will find themselves face to face with the problem of motor fuel
 The possibility of fuel from crude oils as substitute is discussed by MT. White. who has given the mat ter considerable study and attention He calls attention to the possibility of steam and the necessity of further development along this line
 The general supply schedule com mittee of the government received bids for the supply of gasoline to the gov ernment for the four months begin ming July l, 1916." said MT. White
 The lowest bid for the four months was 2711 cents a gallon, while the low est bid for the year beginning July l, 1S16, was 311z cents a gallon, and It should be noted that this supply is in lots of hundreds of thousands ot where the ordinary consumer will be when this wholesale rate to the gov ernment Is so high
 "Is this the result of manipulation or is it the result of a normal use oi what only very few years ago would be regarded as an abnormal consump- tion of gasoline?
 MANY GASOLINE USERS
 At the present time there are ir the United States 2.26b.000 automobiles while the country is manufacturing be- tween 5000 and 40oO additional auto mobiles each day. one company mak. ing 2o00 a day, while another is mak- ing 500 a day, so the production oi automobiles at the present time is con. siderably more than 1000, ,0O0 per an, mum. There are 300,000 motorboats IT the United States and 725.O0o interna combustion engines In use on farms and elsewhere. At the rate of 500 gal. ASiS oA 6sioOtiHc q year 1OT edCn aU tomobile. this means the sum total ol l, 1,132,500,000 gallons of gasoline, more than 29.0oQ.0o0 barrels. New automo. piles being put into commission every day, with other. engines or motorboat. and farm machinery means an accum. ulated daily increase of more thar 5000 gallons of gasoline a day.
 Little more than IS months ago we wer exporting about 100, 100000 gallons of gaso line year, while we are at the presen time exporting about $50, 100000 gallon. year, thus making the exports equal tt S5 per cent of the entire American pro Guction.
 The Cushing, Okla, oil field IS months ago was producing more than 3OO,00O bar rels of crude oil day, while at the pres ent time the output Is less than 100 OO barrels day. showing loss of 70, ,00O, ,0O barrels year.
 Tn the United States during the pas two years the production of, crude oil whose content of gasoline is high, ha. fallen off considerably and the fac should not be overlooked that much O. the new crude oil discovered in the United States does not contain gasoline.