The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-27
need FOR GASLESS
SUNDAY EXPLAINED
Directors Show Importance
OF Saving Fuel For
Front.

Washington, Sept. 2l.-The I'M
portance of gasoline in the conduct OF
the war is more and more visible in
Washington every day.
When the allies began their Of
fensive on the western front 1t was on
comparatively short line, but this
has increased and is now three or
four times greater than when the
drive began five weeks ago.
The trucks that this country has
sent over by the thousands upon
thousands are taking the place OF
railroads. which the Germans are de-
stroying on their retreat. The allies
do not take time to rebuild railroads.
They don't have to- But it takes gaso-
line to do all this.
The man who saves gasoline I'm
Sunday is helping to furnish the pow
er to keep up the western offensive
The government is not making pup
lie its gasoline requirements in the
war, but it is known that they have
increased tremendously in the past
three or four weeks.
Gasoline Conference Oh.
The international petroleum con-
ference of London has sem COM
mittee to Washington to Determine
what the gasoline req dirementn or the
Allies are. They are now discussing
daily the growing needs OF thi; gov
eminent as well as tn. neeis Britain
and France. In announcing this.
Federal Oil Director VI l. Requ5.
said:
Gasoline is becOm ng sYcn ma
terial factor and requirements are on
such a large scale that the time has
come when the allies must figure out
this source of power far into the
future.
1T is not only for use in the Trucks
that we need the gasoline, but be-
cause we are going to have suprema-
cy in the air. In fact, supremacy in
the air is going to be the greatest
factor in the war from now on.
People Are Warned.
I'VE want the people of this coun-
try to keep themselves perfectly
liquid regarding gasoline. We wat
them to be prepared 20 switch to any
requirement which the government
may find necessary
1--WE may have to ask users OF
and to conserve even more the follow
ing week, and then we may lind II
necessary to conserve the week after
that; in other words. no one can tell
Just what conditions are going to be,
and the best we can all do is to keep
ourselves in readiness to meet what
ever comes
Consumption of gasoline is increas-
ing at a greater rate than production,
Requa explained. and that as long as
this continues it would not only be
unwise, but unpatriotic, to do other
than save and conserve.
81 believe said Requa, that II
there hadn't been any war the price
of gasoline would have been higher
than it is now, because for some time
we have been consuming more than
we have produced.
Altho Requa would make no state
ment regarding the price of gasoline
in the future. it would not be surpris-
ing if the government put into effect
the Standardization of this commodity
like any other so necessary in the
conduct of war.
The country's reserve'stOck of gas
oline, according to oil producers, is in
about the same condition as last year,
This country produces about 34O.-
900, 0OO barrels of crude oil in year
and about fifteen per cent of this
amount is turned into gasoline, or
about 51,OOO,0OO barrels. The cOun-
try is eating into its store OF crude
oil at the rate of about 10000 barrels
day, and possibly more.
The growth of exports Of gasoline,
by barrels, since 1909, are shown in
the following figures;
1900. ...... ...'''' fo"'ouo
1905. ........ $4,000
1910. 100000
1913. ....... .....''''' o''VV'VoV
1917. ........,.. O,OoO'Ooo
Certainly our production OF crude
oil is not increasing as rapidly as IL
should be in the face of our tremen-
dous demand When we consider the
remarkably diverse uses of oil prod