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Show GASOLINE I'ROVES IT Some proof of the prosperity and (spOndiig1 .ability of the Amerdian people, as compared with other nations na-tions is given by the figures just issued is-sued here which disclose that the people peo-ple of the United States use seventy-1) seventy-1) per cent of the entire gasoline out put of the world. The percapita consumption of gasoline gas-oline in the United States is 69.3 gallons gal-lons a year, whie in Great Britian the second largest consuming country, coun-try, the per capita consumption is but 11.6 gallons. The figures show further fur-ther that one year's consumption of gasoline in China would not keep the automobiles in the United States for eight hours. American production of gasolne hasi ncreased from a billion and a half gallons in 1916 to nine billion bil-lion and a half gallons in 1924. At the same time the figures show that in June the United States produced pro-duced 350,557 passanger automobiles and 36, 096 trucks. This compares with 214, 332 passanger cars and 28,-117 28,-117 trucks produced in June 1924 and is another indication of the growing prosperity in the United States. For the first six months of 1925, the United States has turned out 1,856,491 passanger cars, against 1,-1 744,534 in the same period last year and 228,059 trucks against 192,422. Apparantly the American plan of government is a good one. And it is to be remembersd that in the United Unit-ed States the great percent of the cars are run and nearly all the gasoline gas-oline consumption not by the plutocrats, pluto-crats, but by the rank and file of the people. |