Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-09-05 | Page 25 | Gasoline is Going Up

GASOliNE IS GOING UP Price Now ow 17 li Cents Gallon but hut Will Ill lie De 10 0 Cents Before End x-nt of or Week Ve k J Owing to tho scarcity of or crude oil It ft Is claimed b by local dealers the tho price I of or gasoline Is ranging upwards Salt SnIt Lake dealers in automobile supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies and In gasoline say that tho the price will till Jump from 17 li cents a It gallon to 20 coats a gallon before this w week k Is fin fin- finished fished They say Eny that tho the scarcity of or crude crudo oil Is responsible for the Increasing cost of or Its product and also blame blamo the war nr which Is requiring the sending to Europe of or nil all tho rho ga gasoline and petrol which tho the warring nations can purchase purchase pur pur- chase from tho the United States However It Is true ruc said eald ono one local gasoline and oil dealer discussing this point that In tho the winter the tho gasoline Is stored up and then Is 18 s us used cd continuously in largo quantities all nil summer so su that when tho the fall faU comes the supply naturally Is low ow This rise In gasoline reflects ts therise tho the rise in price of ot crude crudo oil which for tor tho the past two or three months has hoa been goIn going going go go- steadily at fourth ono ofa of or ofa In ing up liP pretty a n. cont a time East Last and west alike aro are tho the same flamo in respect to tho the price of or this commodity going up Ono thing Is sure Tho The price of or gas gas- t will not go o lower this winter it probably will continue to rise rise