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Show SAYS OIL IS FUTURE FUEL 1 Secretary of the Navy Daniels ;; I declares in his annual report fox m 1913 that oil bids fair to become M the principal fuel of the navy ia . fl the future. Already the United r M States employes it exclusively - for torpedo-boat destroyers, and . -JjB likewise has four-battleships 4M under construction which will .r;M be equipped with oil burners, as ,Vl explained in the February Pop- ,) ular Mechanics Magazine. Rear . l Admiral uitten recommenus tnac in Congress empower the Nayy De- ! partment to undertake iramedi- m ately the refining ofjts own oil SM from oil wells driven on public lands. For, it is urged, as for- . eign navies are faking up the ,1 use of oil as fuel, it will not be ' I long before the consumption for I naval purposes alone, when all fleets are equipped, will exceed 25,000.000 tons of fuel oil an- vjf nually. The world's1 annual supply of crude oil is now about 60,000,000 tons, of which the Xg United States produces 60 per cent. California, Oklahoma fa and Illinois supply three-fourths W of this. M - J ?. |