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Show HIGHER STANDARDS IN AUTO. GASOLINE "Don't kick about the poor quality of gasoline the roadside dealer sells you" advises J. David Leigh, local distributor of the Dort motor cars "Write your senator at Washington and ask him to look into the results of the recent conference of the Bureau of Standards and the Bureau of Mines. He can do something to help you." These two bodies met about three .veeks ago to fix upon a reliable-standard reliable-standard for determining the quality of automobile gasoline. The present standards of gasoline quality are based on specific gravity. By mixing light and heavy oils, "blending" it is called in the trade, almost any specific speci-fic gravity mnv be had; yet the quality may be very poor and usually it in these blended motor fuels. "The temperatures at which the portions of a quality of motor fuel change from a liquid to a gat, that is to say its vaporizing vap-orizing points, are more nearly n neasure of its availahilitv in an en .one, than specific gravity, and a standard of this kind would be of real value to motorists," says Mr. J. David Uigh Mr. Leigh goes on to nay that if the individual motorist would show more interest in this gasoline situation situ-ation the remedy would come the more quickly. Adv. |