Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-01
GASOLINE CONSERVATION
URGENT, SAY STATISTICS
Automotivc Engineers Must Build
Engines Making Greater Mileage
on Gallon OF Gns.
KEROSENE PRICE INCREASING
Available Storage Small In COM
pnrison to Demand OF Public,
anu Is ut Best Hand To Mouth
ENistance.

NEW YORK. July Sir. l.. W.Ich.
general secretary and counsel OF the
american Petroleum Institute. OF
which most OF the leading pctrnleun
producers and manufacturers OF his
country arc members, made public
To-Day the following memorandum on
IN" gasoline situation addressed to
300 members OF the Society OF Au-
tomotivc Engineers:
the automobile industry and the
public have been asking for years
what Kind OF gasoline or motor fuel
We were going TO have in the future
ana whether IL wOuld be necessary
10 abandon gasoline and TO use kcro-
scne or some similar product OF pc
trolcum; Furthermore. every ono has
been asking whether we would have
chough gasoline.
me time has arrived when so fa r
hs ordinary human foresight can go.
We can answer the first question by
stating that the motor fuel or the
future VIII probably be substantially
thc same product known as motor
gasoline toha?. But II seems equally
ct"hr that there VIII not be enough
OF IL 10 20 around unless the autOnEo-
Two engineers cooperate TO conserve
Gasoline. There Is no doubt but that
snch conservation could be accom-
pushed by proper design.
\ careful study OF statistics will
snow that The amount Of crude oil
available during the period OF very
!o"-priced gasoline was so great as
~ 'Atbrf LOT lNf tlIlt bglnK any
great expenditure Of effort on the
part OF the automotivc engineer TO
conserve fuel. yhnt time IL past.
Must Conserve Gasoline.
me time mas no" come when, from
the oil mans standpoint. 1T would
seem as though II problem Of the
au>omot!vc engineer is TO build en-
gihcs that instead OF making from
seven TO twelve miles Il gallon OF
gasoline VIII make twenty or thirty
INtIaH ON mo n nFAn,s rl.
problem is not to build engines TO
burn refined oil. or some product OF
m.tr"Ie9in other than the present
motor fuels. At the present time
there Is not enough petroleum to meet
All requirements.
WIZ the speed linitp OF automo-
hlIcs liked at about twenty-five miles
an hour. and with the condi-
non OF our city streets and roads to-
"ay, mating IT unsafe 10 drive very
Inuch faster. why IL II not necessary.
~|dHISahle, and practicable TO cut
Gown very materially the consump-
non 81 gasoline by all types Of au-
t9mohilcs. by the more efficient, use
OF fuel2
Should not tho horse power OF tho
heavy ears be cut down. and could no,
tAc cheaper and lighter cars he so
EQUIPPED. as to set all tho speed de-
SltaD!e from a very much smaller
amount OF gasoline than Is now used?
Gan on Substitute
80 reasonably wc~ll-!nformed man
Akcs 10 make predictions about III.
%! business. Al the same time. the
logic OF the situation Is such that
~hutonpt!Vc engineers should plan 10
usa and conserve the ~rrsent-day
motor fuels. The only fuels possibly
available aside from the p~rcseut-duy
motor fuels are Kerosene and per-
haps 4 dist!l!atc similar TO tho fuel
which Is used in Diesel engines. that
~, something opproNi!nating gas oil.
"Gas oil and kerosene are tending
10 become as scarce as gasoline. AT
the present time many gas companies