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Show i SEEKS MILLION ' FOB I TESTS Problem of Poor Gasoline Vexes Refiners of United States. I . Beeaube q' a limited supply of petro-! petro-! leum in the United States, refiners have i oeen forced to produce a lower grade of i gaoiine and automobile manufacturers must readjust their engines to new speei- i flcatlons. Henry L. Doherty told the rep resentatives of the American Petroleum institute at the opening of their conven- tlon'ln Colorado Springs. Colo. Doherty ! : is rlmirman of a committee of producers ! and refiners which is now negotiating j with the automobile makers to obtain a I! satisfactory solution of the problem, j; The. gasoline problem is one which the ! contemplated bureau of statistics and re- search to be established in the institute !; will undertake to settle. William H. j! Manning, director of the t'nited States l! bureau of mines, asked the institute for i; an appropriation of $1,000,000 a year for the proposed bureau, the monev to be ; raised on a pro rata basis by refiners and I producere. : The problem of using poor gasoline for l automobiles Is not a new one. Dohertv i said. His committee and representatives ! of automobile makers have been consid- ! ering It for months. He declared there was no Immediate means of increasing the ; outpt-t of high-grade crude oil and that to meet the rapidly increasing demands of the market a low-grade gasoline was the only apparent solution. He predicted ; that a satisfactory solution would be found without cruising serious loss in efficiency ef-ficiency through the lower-grade fuel. |