The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1918-11-29
NATURAL GAS IN
COv'T'S CONTROL .
Director Wyer's 5 First Statement
Of the Measure which
win Be Enforced.
CONSUMERS WASTE A SIXTH
Public Should Bs Taught 10 Saws
Natural Gas--coaI Gas Costs Three
Times as Much--Adequate Price
Would Lessen Waste.

Times as Much--Ad adequate Price
Would Lessen Waste.
Washington, Nov. 16.-The recently
appointed director OF the Bureau q
Gas Conservation, MFR. sSamuel -
Wysr, in IN address to the repressn-
tatives OF municipalities and the sas
managers of the mid-continent mid.
told them that they were about % bs
put under licenses; that any one who
did not stop the wasting Of gas would
lose his license TO handle It.
The parts of his statement Of the
attitude OF the government Of intsr~
est to the consumer follow: @
Unless arrangements are mads
whereby needless waste ID stopped,
the time is not far distant until q
least the smaller distributing plants
will be left with nothing but an emp.
" or gasless distributing plant.
AS practical proposition that gosa
to the very root OF the whole con
seryation question, ! made the stats-
ment this morning and this after
noon and will repeat 1t now that
you can never have conservation Of
natural gas until you have an ads
quate price. Whether or not this ~
desirable, 1t Ii simply cold-bloodedI
engineering and economic fact. and
no amount OF juggling will ever
change It.
Twice 40 Hot II Third the Cost
We believe, as . matter Of publicl
education, that 1t is our duty to teach
the public what natural gas is worth,
and that 1t is our duty to teach ths
public az to what they will hays to
pay for substitutes for It when Il Il
gone. And whom we speak aboHa;
natural gas being gone, we are not
talking about anything that is vague
or visionary, or something far rs-
mote. We have ! very practfcall
case IA Richmond. Ind, where thsyj
are now paying IS cents for natural
gas. Thsy VII have TO 80 On manu-
faetured sas about Ostobsr. Tor thaA
they will pay 31.35 for haf d thS
heating value Of their 35-cent natural
gas. In other words. II ID squiya1eG
N that placa, 70 TAR - the public =
concerned, to Jumping the prics =,
the public fzom 171k cents to S$1.3g.
II is y fact that TIM public must rso-
Ognizs, that what they are wasting
is priceless resource, resourcss
that has never been duplicated. and
don't believe 4 ever VIII be, by anyt
made product. 5
We expect through publicity WI
show the public how the ordinary do
nestle consumer can eliminate a
large waste on his own premises. For
instance, We have made . series of
tests that indicate 10 far as we havsi
gone that. as q general proposition.
ons-sixth Of all the natural gas that
passes through domestic consumars'l
meters is never burned, but ID slime
ply wasted through leaky fixtures, 4
leaking cocks, leaking nipples, leak
ing collars, elbow pipes and pin holes
The Ohio consunar. 6
The only way you can mahs ths,
producer eliminate the waste \ t.,
make the gas he il wasting WORTH
saving. In the case d the oil wen
wasts of sas. you have got 70 make
worth more than the oil. That ckI
course, VIII have tho inevitable sfRsctt
Of incrsasing the cost al along ths,
line. For that reason ! made III
statement right at the very beginning
that while We - bureau VIII try 10
keep ont Of the rate making phase,
! 'Am personally convinced you VIII.
have to adjust your rate situation h
order to i've and make conservataon
possible. The two 60 together.
.gs} SAMUM 8. WYER,
Chief Of Bureau Of Gas Conservation.