OCR Text |
Show of the price are common. New increases in-creases are proposed in many states. However, the American public has shown that it is weary of being "gas-taxed" "gas-taxed" to death and it is improbable that the next few years will bring many increases. I AMERICA PAYS LESS FOR GASOLINE. Those who rail the "high price of gasoline" should know that American Ameri-can motorists pay ony about CO per cent as much per gallon for motor fuel as do the car-owners of the rest of the world. A recent study of prices demonstrates demon-strates that the average price of gasoline gas-oline in this country is about 20 cents a gallon. The average for the rest of the world is 35 cents. In Great Britain, Bri-tain, France, Germany and Italy, motorists mo-torists pay up to 40 cents, and in Bolivia Bo-livia gas reaches the record price of 65 cents. Even motorists in Canada and Mexico pay 15 to 80 per cent more than we do. Gasoline is the only commodity in general use which now costs less than it did before the war. Today's dollar, on the 1913 basis, buys more than a dollar's worth of gasoline, but only about 60 cents worth of the average commodity. This is due, principally, to the phenomenal progress made by the American oil industry in developing devel-oping new fields, more scientific and economic producing and refining methods, and the best marketing facilities fa-cilities in the world. The industry has worked with the object in view of providing its buying public with the highest possible grade of motor fuel at a reasonable price. When gasoline prices appear to be exorbitant, it will usually be found that this is the result of excessive gas taxes. Tax rates of four, five and ix cents a galon 20 to 30 per cent |