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Show Control of Gas Suggested By Chemist The war is now settling into a race between nations for gasoline gaso-line and oil for planes and tanks No matter how much steel, aluminum alu-minum and other metals produced, produc-ed, the basic problem is the fuel to keep the war going until it js won. Dr. Gustav Egloff, director of research of the Universal CHI company of Chicago stated at a meeting of the American flvm. ical society. The favorable position of the United States is fuel production is indicated by the fact that European conutries are being driven to the use of any and all substitutes, he declared. In France internal combustion engines are running on alcohol made from grapes. In Holland, motor vehicles ve-hicles are burning peat. In Germany, wood chips are one of the substitues used for gasoline;1 in Sweden, wood alcohol alco-hol and turpentine have developed develop-ed into motor fuels, and In Spain poor shale coal is being dug at tremendous costs to be converted into fuel. France has even driven to the point of digging up the wooden paving bricks of the Place de la Concorde to be used as fuel, Dr. .Egloff said. Unless Germany succeds in her drive to capture the Russian oil fields he will be extremely short on tank and gasoline fuel despit: her hydrogeneration - process by which gasoline and oil are obtained ob-tained from coal. "The Russian Invasion has cost Germany about 21.5000,000 barrels of oil per month, of which at least, 4,250,000 barrels has been used in maintaining communications communica-tions and industry behind the battle lines.'' the Chicago chemist chem-ist declared. It has estimated that the military mil-itary operations of the past year on all' fronts consumed more than 255,000,000 barrels of fuel of which the combined total of Germany, Rumania, Poland and Albania was only 53, 280,000 barrels. "The deficit thought to be affecting the axis oil supply at the end of 1941 amounts to 67,171.000 barrels," necessitating a drastic restriction in all but the most necessary of both civilian and military vehicles. ve-hicles. . , "It is an evident fact that toe axis nations relay to a considerable consider-able extent upon substitue fuels," including benzol, compressed ga es from natural' gas, coal, wood chips, city gas plants and even eases from sewage," he added. |