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Show dozens of naval and military bases bas-es all over the world. Training planes use 50 gallons of 100-octane gasoline an hour. To train one pilot required 250 hours in the air and 12,500 gallons gal-lons of gasoline. When in combat, Army planes use 100 gallons of gasoline per hour per engine. A Flying Fortress uses 400 gallons gal-lons of 100-octane gasoline per hour. It is estimated that a modern destroyer uses more than 3000 gallons of oil an hour. How The Ban Effect! Driving The restrictions on driving under un-der the ban provide that gasoline gaso-line may be used only for trips connected with the motorists occupation oc-cupation or with family or personal per-sonal necessity. Family or personal necessity driving includes (but is not limited limit-ed to): essential shopping, getting get-ting medical attention, attending religious services, attending funerals, fun-erals, attending meetings of groups or organizations essential to the occupation or profession of the person using the vehicle, meeting an emergency involving a threat to life, health, or property, prop-erty, or for instruction or training train-ing in meeting or preparing to meet such emergencies. Non-essential trips specifically prohibited by the ban include (but are not limited to): driving to places of amusement, recreation recrea-tion or entertainment (such as theaters, amusement parks, concerts, con-certs, dances, golf courses, skating skat-ing rinks, bowling alleys or night clubs): sporting events (such as races or games): social club meetings, meet-ings, sightseeing, touring and vacation va-cation travel, making social calls. V" . .. WHAT IS NON-ESSENTIAL DRIVING The ban on non-essential driving driv-ing is an emergency measure to meet a crisis in the gas supply situation. At present it applies in twelve eastern states, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermon, Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Connec-ticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Mary-land, and Virginia and the District Dis-trict of Columbia and eight eastern east-ern counties of West Virginia. Early in the winter of 1942, it became obvious that greater reductions re-ductions in this territory were necessary because of increased military demands. On November 22, the value of "A" coupons was cut from 4 to 3 gallons. In December De-cember "B" and "C"'s were cut from 4 to 3; on March 22, the value of "A" rations was cut in half through an extension of the valid period of A-5 coupons from 2 to 4 months. This summer sum-mer "B" and "C" coupons were again cut to 2 12 gallons. On January 26, 1943, the first driving ban became effective to curtail gasoline consumption in keeping with the reduced allotment allot-ment from the Petroleum Administration Ad-ministration for War. Penalties connected with this driving ban were substituted by the reduction in the value of "A" rations on March 22, but the ban was reinstituted on May 20. Why We Must Conserve Gasoline Back of the whole gasoline conservation program is the basic ba-sic principle that we must more and more conserve so that our fighting men and Allies may get all they need. Oil and gas constitute con-stitute the very life blood of a mechanized war machine. It should be remembered that: We are now supplying enormous enor-mous amounts of petroleum products pro-ducts to our fighting forces in Africa. We are stocking -England and |