Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-27 | Page 22 | Gas at Forty Cents Prediction of Dealer

1 GAS AT FORTY CENTS PREDICTION OF DEALER Present indications point to an even greater increase in the price of at gasoline gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line than has been not noted d In the last few months and the prediction may be cent 40 gasoline is safely safely- made that not far away according to the local Franklin dealer The advance he says is due to two causes decreasing oil all supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies and an unusually lar large e increase in the demand for gasoline It It looks he says as though the I price of gasoline were approaching such a high point that that the cost to motor car users will have an effect on car design Will WiH it be possible possible pos pos- sible to m market heavy cars having corresponding corresponding corresponding cor cor- responding gasoline consuming tendencies tendencies tendencies cies with gasoline at 40 cents a gallon Will Vill it be feasible to build cars with engines of at 75 to horsepower when every horsepower means so much gasoline gasoline gasoline gas gas- oline to produce It One motor car engine may be more efficient than another But in connection connection connection tion with the foregoing questions it should b be borne in mind that the company company company com com- pany making the more efficient motor can manufacture one of ot smaller power which would consume a relatively small amount of gasoline and still be able to todo todo todo do the same work If it the car is proportionately proportionately pro proportionately lighter There here has been a decided trend to toward toward toward to- to ward light weight In the past two years because the average car owner has come to realize that there is an important relation between light weight and the economical operation of an au au- au- au Forty-cent Forty gasoline would unquestionably compel manufacturers to go still further causing them to tomake tomake tomake make their cars m more more re simple with few parts and les less s friction J