Show OL OIL SHORTAGE IS ISNOW NOW NOVI FEARE FEARED ON COAST I Consumption Is Production by Barrels Barels Annually SAN FRANCISCO Nov 13 The Tho Pa Pacific ia Coast faces a fuel shortage Cue oil 01 Oil OI consumption is 18 outrunning oil 01 production production pro pro- ducton at the rate of barrels barels per year rear I I I Storage Mocks of oil 01 have have been ben re reI reduced ro- ro already to an amount equivalent to only two months' months average tion ton and tho the situation Is la steadily ing log worse SowIng grow grow- Sow Sow- S Curtailment of fuel oil al consumption Is la even now being enforced and unless there ensues at this time a substantial and antI steady increase in oil production ft and a general al application 01 of economies In n consumption sharper sharer curtailment will h be necessary in iii the near future wi T These etso ar are the facts disclosed by the r report of the special fuel oil committee appointed led by the San Saji San Francisco al chamber chaber of commerce two months to ago survey the fuel oil oi conditions conations in this state and t to recommend recommend measures of relief This committee committe whose report has Just ls been who filed fed with the board of directors of the 15 chamber m of commerce is composed of lIa r at 11 T Bentley chairman a d J. J R. R Hanify Wallace e M. M Alexander Alfred d l I. I Esberg t C. C Parker Hol Holt Joseph J. J Tynan and Leon G. G LeV Levy secretary n- n nH H H- HIn I. I In its effort to help the present acute situation and to discount the dIscouragIng ing forecast of the future the chamber of or commerce has received and considered I I many manyi suggestions and recommendations 1 Included among them are the curtailment curtail curtail- ment of regional fuel oi oil delivery delvery dee elec ele- ele I of railroads use of Mexican fuel oil 01 by merchant and naval vessels importation of ot Mexican oil decrease of exP export rt of California oil 01 01 use of fuel oil oI j substitutes general g voluntary curtail curtail- men ment of cons consumption fu by by fuel oil ol users s' s is encouragement of oil 01 prospecting by amendment of federal federl legislation in installation In- In installation of fuel saving equipment by oil oi consumers definite encouragement and support of hydroelectric power de do- do As A of chief importance In the problem of permanent betterment the chamber names naS the early and rapid development of hydroelectric power In Involved In this is the possible electrification of rail rail- roads which now consume from 37 rI- rI to 40 per cent of the California fuel oil aU supply and the te general genera substitution of hydro-electric hydro power for fuel oil au in InI In- In I |