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Show WANT STATE TO FIX THE PRICE ON GA80LINE Motorists and other users of gasoline gaso-line in the west are watching with Interest In-terest the efforts that are being mado by the corporation of Oklahoma to regulate the price of the commodity in that state. It la claimed by Attorney Attor-ney General D. P. Looney, of Toxas, that the manufacturers and sellers of petroleum products In the Lone Star state discriminate against homo consumers in the matter of prices. In Oklahoma the situation Is even worse as Is Bhown by Investigation. In somo towns In that stato gasollno Is sold as low ns 13 1-2 cents per gallon; gal-lon; In others tho price Is 1G cents and in the extreme wostern part It Is aB high as 30 cents. Whllo tho prices In different parts of Toxas do not rango as widely as In Oklahoma thero Is. somo dlfToroncq which Is nl-lcgod nl-lcgod not to bo Justified by tho oddl- m tlonal cost of transportation of the W product. Tho fact that motor cars aro uslnS eu6h enormous quantities of gasollno causes marked iittontlon to. bo Elven to any fluctuation of tho prlco of tat-product. |