Show FINDS NO SHORTAGE IN GASOLINE that the prices ot at gasoline aro are being maintained artificially at their present unprecedented high level and that the big advance a 0 the public Is not due to any actual shortage of the crude product appear to bo be well substantiated by the facts contained in th craport delatt relative ve to tile the production consumption and price of 0 gasoline recently submitted to the U 8 senate by secretary franklin 11 II lane ot at he department ol of the interim to tho the question what cause it if any ny can bo be given for tho the sudden extraordinary tra ordinary rise in tho the retail price ol of gasoline in ascribing cause for or the rise the secretary mentions tho the depletion of gasoline stocks due to increased domestic and export demands and further says that inquiry today indicates that there Is title gasoline in borage yet in thil the next section of the report alter after stating ia ceralo cerain surplus crudo crude stocks now being drawn on to steady tile the oil market aro are controlled contro llod by tho the storage com companies panICE and have been withdrawn from the open market the secretary de decla claret rei since those these larger compan comp allic lot have hava in tact fact larger stocks than a ago it follows with them the shortage of gasoline rich crude Is a most only threatened and to the ox ex tent that these companies are using their 1015 1915 surplus the threatened shortage Is not yet a factor in increasing tile cost of at gasoline prod action therefore the only reasor reason tor for the increase in coil coa of this prod act except that the producing comp antes desire to increase their profits at the expense of the public con can gross greas should conduct a thorough investigation vesti gation into this matter and it I 1 possible bring the price of gaso gasoline lluc back to where it was wag before the pree ant high prices prevailed |