Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
Fuel Oil
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to the conference in the economic
directors Offices in the east wing
OF the White House.
Meanwhile rs per cent limita-
ton on fuel oil supplies, based on
last years purchases. was said to-
day in a release from the Once of
War Information to have been i'm
posed on District dealers by pri-
mary suppliers through a misinter-
probation Of regulations.
This announcement grew out of q
conference yesterday between ON
cials Of the once of Price Admin
istration and the Petroleum Admin
istration of War at which it was
emphasized that Qualification of the
relationships between Suppliers and
dealers. thus tending to increase
flexibility in the flow of the Dis
trict's oil supplies, did not mean
that any more oil had been made
available to Washington.
Announcement was made in the
press Sunday that the rs per cent
limitation had been lifted.
Exchanges Permissible.
I'm Washington last week." the
Owl release Of today explained, 1T
developed that some OF the primary
suppliers had interpreted a PAW
order as meaning that they could
not share their oil with other sup
pliers beyond their quota limits.
so, in order to remove this mis-
understanding, an amendment was
issued last Wednesday, specifically
providing that exchanges between
suppliers could be made freely and
would not be counted against their
quotas. This was done to facilitate
exchanges between suppliers who
happened to be long on oil and those
who happened to be short. AS the
result of this Qualification, relief for
local dealers was obtained.
1t was mutually understood at
yesterdays meeting, according to
the Owl, that quotas set for sup
pliers in the East are based on eX-
pected supply. If shifting popula-
ton causes more coupons to be is
sued in locality than would have
been expected, adjustments will be
made.
The officials also agreed that, in
order to make more oil available for
communities where population has
heavily increased, corresponding re-
auctions would have to be made in
communities in which population
has declined.
Present at the meeting were Rob-
ert E. Allen, acting deputy petroleum
administrator; Robert T. Collier
marketing director for PAW: Whit
ney Leary, OPA District director
and Renah F. Camalier, consultant
to Mr.. Leary.
Recognizing that there is very
real shortage of heating oil in the
East and that there is no chance
Whatever of supplying consumers
with the amounts of oil which they
would ordinarily use. the officials
concluded that all the Government
the oil companies and the transpor-
tatlon companies could do was bring
in as much as possible and then
spread the limited supply as eoui-
tably as possible among all con-
SumerS.
Heating Oil Situation.
In the case of heating oil. It was
reported, the supply will amount ia
$40 900 barrels per day for the rest of
this month and $4,000 barrels per
day for January.
This is all that can be counted
upon safely" the officials announced
following the meeting. TT is not
expansible."
Meanwhile, Mr.. Camalicr planned
to continue with his effort as con-
sultant to iron out friction and
other drawbacks which so far have
confused the fuel oil situation in
the District. He said he would
confer during the day with Price
Administrator Henderson and
group of representative dealers.
The meeting he had scheduled with
Mr.. Henderson for yesterday was
postponed.
The Petroleum Administration re-
ported today that heavy demands
on East Coast petroleum stocks
had caused suppliers to dip deeper
into their shrunken inventories for
the week ended December 10. Daily
shipments of crude oil and pc
troleum productions for the period
average 744.023 barrels, compared
to 736,099 for the preceding week.