Show t products By-products of Molasses Yield Power o er for fori I I Motors i N N. N E E. E A. A Special to The Telegram HONOLULU May 22 The The gasoline shortage question n is Is' solved at least in Hawaii Urged on by reports the supply 1 of gasoline for fuel purposes in the United States is falling failing and that there will wilt be no gasoline for automobile consumption consumption con con- within a very few tew years Hawaiian Hawaiian Ha Ha- sugar can growers have developed developed developed devel devel- from cane byproducts an alcohol fluid which mixed with ether and other I substances Is proving a most effective substitute IS ALREADY SUCCESSFUL The Hawaiian islands Islands have now become become be be- come Independent of American gasoline producers and will within a short time tithe be beIn bein bein in a position to supply the continental market with the substitute For the past year large agricultural companies on the Island of Maul have operated operated operated op op- op- op their fleets of trucks on this substitute substitute substitute sub sub- costing but 8 cents a gallon The process has been Invented by J. J P. P Foster Foster Foster Fos Fos- ter superintendent of f the Maul Maui Agricultural Agricultural Agricultural tural company The new fuel Is reported to make malte for tor clean cylinders The trucks ush using g the fluid have operated with 20 per cent more 1 power and no cylinder trouble has been experienced COST VERY VERY LITTLE Waste Vaste molasses produced In the territory territory ter ter- ter- ter amounts to approximately tons a year equal to gallons of motor fuel s Several veral plants are being planned for lor immediate construction on the Islands Plans are are also being completed to develop develop develop de de- de- de the for use In the United States and to utilize the waste from sugar cane grown there It Is believed this molas molasses es waste can be manufactured into motor fuel at a cost of less than 10 cents a gallon Chemists also predict that the new fuel can be made on a large scale and that alcohol will be the motor fuel of the future Whether it can be produced from cane byproducts in large enough quantities to take the place of gasoline Is yet jet et unknown I |