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Show LOW GRADE GASOLINE IMCHK MOTORS Gasoline this season will probably be a little lower in gravity, with about the same initial point as last year, but will have a higher end point, due to heavier distillates. y The above statement, taken from a recent re-cent magazine article, was submitted to W. P. Culmer, manager of the Culmers company, who said: "This matter is thoroughly and ably discussed by Dr. Eittner, the" TJ. S. government gov-ernment expert, in the March issue of the National Petroleum News. Dr. Eittner Eitt-ner says that straight run gasoline production pro-duction will fall far short of supplying the 1917 demand, because of the increased in-creased number of automobiles. "In 1905 there were produced 85,000 automobiles; in 1916 the production was 2,225,000, and the estimated output for 1917 is 3,250,000. "At the present production of 2,000,-000 2,000,-000 cars per annum, each using 400 gallons gal-lons of gasoline per vear, it wul require 800,000,000 gallons of gasoline, or an increase of 3,000,000 gallons, per annum for every day's output of cars. "To secure this increase it would require re-quire an increase of production of crude oil of from 400,000 to 600,000 barrels, and is obviously impossible. "To better illustrate the point, it can be shown that, while in 1905 there was produced 134,777,5S0 barrels of crude oil, this had only increased to 293,-300,000 293,-300,000 in 1916, which means that while automobile building has been increased thirty fold oil production has increased only two and one-quarter fold. "As a consequence, there is not half enough straight run gasoline produced, and it will be necessary to take larger portions of motor fuel from the crude oils and call it gasoline. "The increased demand now must be supplied by using the heavier distillates by putting them into shape by the 'cracking' process, and the production will continue to become heavier in gravity, with a higher initial point, and and ejid point approaching nearer to Kerosene. "Producing this class of fuel hy the 'cracking' process and by blending heavier distillates with casing head gas will eventually mean that new types of engines and a new 9ystem of car-buretion car-buretion will be designed by the automobile auto-mobile builders to meet the situation. "From an engineering point of view, alcohol is a practical substitute, but it cannot be made and marketed for less than 40 cents per gallon, and is, therefore, there-fore, prohibitive until gasoline reaches the 40-cent mask." |