Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 33 | Movement Begun to Standardize Fuel

1MHTBEG11T0 STlfillZE FUEL Oil Men Say Gasoline Is Being Be-ing Adulterated After It Leaves Refineries. Tn the passage, of an ordinance hy the Detroit common council, the first Rtep of a movement to he made na tional in Hopc has been taken by De-troiters De-troiters to standardize motor fuel, (.'o-operatinp; (.'o-operatinp; in the work are rpprnpenta-tives rpprnpenta-tives of the Wolverine Automonile club Society of Antomobilo Engineers and automobile nianui'actnrer?. The object, of Mandardizntion is to first provide a quality that can be uFnd readily in any temperature or altitude, and, second, to prevent adulteration by mif-crupulous dealers. Jn low temperature tempera-ture it is almost an impossibility for the highly developed engines made today to-day to consume tho fuel beinp sold. Under Un-der the standard adopted in Detroit, any motor will burn it. Oil men Bay eomebody adulterates the product after it leaves the refineries. Owners of filling fill-ing stations pay t hat if there is any adulteration it is done before they receive re-ceive it. The Detroit ordinance will, if copied throughout, the country, put an end to the nnie of inferior fuel. The technical committee of the Wolverine Wol-verine Automobile club, which includes, amonp others, a leading American automobile auto-mobile engineer and an Knglish engineer engi-neer of note, co-operated with .7. C. Mr-Cabe Mr-Cabe of the municipal drpurtment of safety en gin ee ring to per fee t the Detroit De-troit ordinance. Then representatives of the R. A. E., manufacturer and oil companies were called to a coz-forenoe, nt which all agreed the Detroit standard stand-ard was fair lo tbot-e concerned. Fuel must show 2 ier cent boiling at 20 decrees Fahrenheit in order to qualify. This, tho expert say. will be suitable for use in anv climate nr nlt.i-tnde. nlt.i-tnde. The old idea of showing a flah point has been abandoned. The fuel can be made either bv t lie vo-en 1 led cracking prrx'eft or di'tillat ion. ( rarlscd fuel i" made bv a pressure rv-1ein, ni in the finrton method. Dist i Ha to in a refined re-fined product from the crude nil.