Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-13 | Page 5 | Oil Shortage Looms, Doheny

OIl SHORTAGE Y DOHENY Nation Faces aces Dire ire 4 Peril eri Claim aim A ATLANTIC CITY N. N J J. J Oct 13 AP AP- AP AP Truly alarming was the term applied today to the situation a as as' regards the nations nation's future oil supply by Henry L. L Doherty of New York He spoke on R Raw w Materials 1 Future at the convention convention convention conven conven- tion of the American Gas association association association tion and took issue with a recent report of the American Americ n Petroleum institute I A committee of dire directors rs of the Institute started out out with the I avowed Intention of proving that we had an ample supply Of pf natural petroleum oil oil he said A careful analysis of this report would not convince any intelligent man that if war should come again even within thirty-six thirty months we as a nation would be certain to have an adequate te supply of available petroleum pe- pe pe Mr 11 Doherty said that as the committee committee committee com com- was unable to show that the nation has an adequate supply of natural petroleum they fell back on the assurance of a supply of oil from shale oil and coal beds They tell us he said that that we we can possibly produce as much as barrels of oil from coal Yet they are compelled to admit In this same report that if all the COg coal mined in 1924 had been processed for oil recovery it would have produced hardy barely more than 3 per cent of the total of all aU the motor fuel required in 1924 You men are in a much better position than anybody else to realize realize real real- ize how wholly visionary and impractical impractical impractical im im- im- im practical it would be to be compelled comI compelled com com- to depend for our oil upon I either coal or shale