New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-05

'oPoi - ''0'' YIN Co..
gated the situation indicating IuI'
,.,o,, -, tho limited States have O
""'iN'
cost of operating their cars thi' SUI
Tho increase Of cent made on
.t.. ,....h,....r retail
Thursday brings inc "'H"""''
mark I'm this CITY 'o 81 cents. while ~
.. 49,. lac, ,oer Emo highest price
'' - .o,.s
charged 10 local garage
However, 81 cents II MOI inc
m, and Be- no. ip sight.
% 'c"'' "'-
according go the garage mcN' WIZ" "''
,oyv only bcinc supplied WIN suucf"Ht
.,,,o choir nrcscnt wants.
Sdsol'"' Sd. ,.
They declare th"i "f +N"''''
expected that f "i' cost inc ''"-'
rar ov,ucr 80 for fvcl for Dis lJOmiic
....,lo,o - d.. pro.
iuN ." '"""''
cictcd viii then be foi't cents 80
ion. I'm April. 1918. the wholesale
10 Of c,eolono AVERAGED fourteen
II. ..-...,..o,,, .ho country.
cents Canon '"I""e"V"' 'l'
While a. the beginning oil the picseh'
month n had advanced 10 twenty
,onts Pctsu nriccs range from three
10 ~ cent a Gallon over those quoted
Tho ,boies,lers. bringing the
.vrracc retail price m forty three of
fhe leading cities of tho country 20
,,,,,,.t,-fo,,r ronts = gallon.
An ANALYSIS OF the casolcue situa-
,,on aud n review Of the efforts made
g.. producing "a fuel that can he sub
stitutcd for this product Of petroleum
in the opcratiou OF motor vehicles
has been prepared by "The Horsclcss
Arc"
THAT the question Of obtaining an
adequate supnly of fuel al reason
able price is q matter which Is re-
ceiving tho serious attention OF the
irotorist the man who pays the piper
but. IN thi- case. docs not can me
tunc--is unquegiloned. says TINS Sauto
riobilc trade magazine. ut should De
aided that some OF the best brains }"
inc country are busil{ engaged III ''s
iue TO solve me propIcnl P'tsvnt," -
tho ever rapidly increasing nunper %
automobile, ~ tho United states ana
the growing difficulty, ~ evidence" ny
tic doubln,. OF gasolcne prices OF luz
Fishing fuel 10 run them.
Before considering the posslbiliilc-
of producing fuels other than the gas
olcnc OF commerce. q brief outline OF
,hc actual present pos ltlon o. gasO'cnc
and allied industries is Of interest, for
Tho reason that the car owner is. Tor
~ Nv bc;rr. AT any rate. absolutely
donenden+ on This fuel
Ealthovch there arc no exact figure
showing actual gasolcne consumption,
an indication Of the quantity available
for domestic use may be obtained by
taking tho total production and deduct
inc, H. ovnorts. and ON this basis tho
roilovine calculations. which arc based
On oHirisl figures. will help the gaso-
ione user 10 realize just where he
stands. The quantities ere given I'm
barrels of forty-t'yo gallons.
"ln round figures there arc 1-7VV' o"
automobiles in use az the present timc
in tho United States. and as me 'o'"'
domestic production OF gasoient, u az
the quantity exported was 90 VV'V'V
barrels in 1918. simple calcuiatioh
gives the number OF gallons aV"naDlc
for each car as approximately &c"
perhaps enough FOR "oUV miieS' pei
haps not. fliteen inohtns ago oo ,,' go
was reserve stock o. about 2.ooo0oO
barrels Of gasolcue. and three month
ago this had been exhausted so '",1
there Is no reserve 10 ofaW UPON pca ="
1914 the production equa4Icu 90 "a, ga.
Ions per car .n 80 80 80
was oo'Is az -. h.. ,be ord Of
~ IS - +bo,o will he over
, i. oooPooo -. in o,oration. and Al the
"a 81 10i- +. would seem reasonable
10, .bc .ddifior Of another mill
;or b,s;rc ,hc figures on the csti-
mated automobile factory production.
lo~s oxporta
"Tbe foregoinc calculations take ac-
count only Or casolenc 100 relation 20
.,tomoh,los. but as thcy ignore Gle
.On OOO motor boats az present IN scr
,,.c a,d also tho 20 GOO farm tractors
..oo-s,;r. i'm diTo~cnt grricultural dis
,,.icts a Glance will show that the mo-
,oris. Re I, an even more desperate po-
zion thst would seem 10 be the case
~, .bc casual inouirer. When the needs
~ sircrsf, stationary internal com
h,,s,;nr or,,;,es and General industrial
ana boreeboid uses are taken into con
80 t.' T.. - ol.,.,o,,sl, time TO stir
800 h;t and Ioot for a way out
- 60 rs,i5l, accommodating fuel
,rouhIes
"rbe rrs4 -ioucl. is can the pro-
-. - ,..s,f.,,. ba materially i'm
u.5 - b,. The development Of
'''o'., a-i5. h, tEc no Of iin-
NV ". 49,. oe d,.t.llst.ono
P'ot0 CIV u.s., ~. .t.. ,,,.6rctio, ID, Tho
- ~, Otlqbor,a
NnoNn "clu' &C., -, 80 d.-
ana hans"S - - .,,d
iciencle' d" '"v p""',' '".'u
the Secretary oi ,"e lu'cl .ol nc
hat approximately o2V'VVV'OV" p"i
OF OIL arc under JANUS ITO" D" pun