The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-08-05

out the gasolene supply in the United
States. The cry is still like that of
Oliver Twist however. and the au-
/ thorities are becoming more and more
| concerned as to the ultimate outcome
unless there is some check on the de-
mand for motor fuel
The demand for gasolene," to quote
the words of DR.. Smith again. seems
To obey no law of normal increase. In
any weighing of the uses of petroleum
certain changes of practice appear in
Ievitable. The use of gasolene to serve
our pleasure cannot go on unchecked
the JOY ride is not the kind of pur-
suit of happiness regarded as an un-
alienable right by our revolutionary
O.. fathers"
with the demand for petroleum far
exceeding the war time level. which
was reached when oil was used in
enormous quantities for the navy and
gasolene was helping in the movement
OF our armies in France. the govern
ment is seriously considering steps for
controlling the use of the commodity.
Just about the time stringent laws
concerning the use of gasoIene will
have been enacted it may be found /
that after all motorists will be able to /
get along without any more gasolene. /
or with considerably less of it. bv
mixing it with something else With
gasolene soaring to the high places. l.
alcohol may come in as an acceptable
substitute. Denatured alcohol. war
ranted to make a man curl up and die
If taken as a beverage, makes a very /,
acceptable motor fuel either simple 4
or ITSELF or mixed with gasolens
There is one preparation on the mar
ket consisting of alcohol and gaso-
lene, which is being used by companies
owning many trucks, on the ground
that although it is more expensive
than gasolene, it is easy on the ma Z
chinery. Alcohol can be produced to ]
sell at approximately so cents a gal q
Ion in carload lots. There is another
mixture said to be distilled from veg g
etable matter which is being recon- a
mended as fuel
May Lead to the Tropics.
1t is not unlikely that the quest for
gasoline may lead us to the still in }
the tropics, where there is plenty of
lush and quickly growing vegetation
which can be fermented, and thus
made to yield alcohol. 1t is only a
question of time when methods can be
devised, in the opinion of experts, for G.
Utilizing alcohol in explosive engines. ~
some spirit motors are doing very well, d
wen in the present circumstances. Il
BY using cheap alcohol derived from n
he nipa palm and such vegetation in g,
he tropical regions and by instituting a.
suitable transportation facilities there 81
would be abundant opportunity to u
nave a vegetable fuel from which b
much power could be obtained. Y,
Mr.. Smith Sees however even in e.
he note of alarm about gasolene an in
ventual economic good, for it will ii
ring about in his opinion, a serious ia
consideration of the essential uses. of %
etroleum. r.
"Oil was first used as an illuminant," fl
e observes, but today, whether in - !.
he kerosene lamp on the modern from o.
Ter or as gas oil to enrich the gas of te
he city, this use of the petroleum &C
rOduct is not increasing at the same "
Gale as the industrial uses In power
eneration oil takes on much larger
values whether in gasolene a
r fuel oil. The higher cost of coal
recent years has greatly stimulated
ne use of fuel oil under boilers. -
prices also will eventually exert an al
utomatic control on the use of oil Is
roducts. Not only is the Inadequate pc
apply stimulating high cost produc 90 -.
on as well as rewarding low cost Al
with unusual profits, but, co
owever much we may desire low 49,
rice gasolene we cannot wave aside of
lie economic facts of supply and de- ad
and. High prices are here for crude an
and for every one of its products, %
Id high prices will help to bring
bout a kind of economic survival Ac
hat use of oil which serves the great =,
t end will survive and business prac- -
oe, public opinion, ana even, if need
|, governmental regulation, should In
ork together to enforce obedience to
is democratic rule of the greatest In
od to the greatest number. Plenty
id cheapness have led to waste sig
arcity and dearness ought to pro- eri
ote thrift. 1t is a problem for the ere
ton as well as for the individual I'd I'd
ant to get larger value out of the voi
CHER cost oil. frs
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