Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-05 | Page 14 | Officials Consider Gasoline Question

OFFICIALS CONSIDER ! GASOLINE QUESTION I Contemplated Ordinance Intended to Protect Consumers Erings Varying Views From Purveyors of Oils. Just what is not gasoline or what is i gasoline is a question that threatens to baffle the city commission in connection ! with the contemplated enactment of an ordinance designed to protect users of the -commodity against being victimized with an inferior product. The ordinance is designed to provide quality standards for oils as well as gasoline gaso-line and was drawn with a provision that containers of accelerators and accelerating mixtures sold for use in gasoline in propelling pro-pelling gasoline engines, must bear upon the outside the printed formula of the mixture. Emphatic protest against enactment of the ordinance was made by "W. F. Culmer of the Culmer Oil company. It was Mr. Culmer who propounded to the commission commis-sion the question as to what is gasoline. He explained that the commodity is so variable as to make definition of it exceedingly ex-ceedingly difficult and of such wide latitude lati-tude as to nullify the effect of the ordinance. ordi-nance. It was against the provision with regard re-gard to accelerators that Mr. Culmer made most vigorous protest. He explained that his company is selling an accelerator, the composition of which is a secret, and that to publish the formula would be disastrous to the business interests of the company. Charles Flfield of the Continental Oil company was also before the commission. He did not protest as did Mr. Culmer, but allowed that the ordinance might be a good thing.