Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-11-25 | Page 18 | Have Fifteen Million Cars

HAVE FIFTEEN MilliON CARS American Motorists Use Six Billion Gallons of Gas Each Year William N Showalter writing In Inthe Inthe the National magazine sa that motor tare t are now In n use In the United States State and that the tho Lincoln highway from the banks bank ot of the th Hudson to the tho Golden Goldon Gate Gale Gat would nave nava nav to ho he h widened to a paved width Mth of ot feet teet so 80 that fifteen cars could co il staid abreast It if all tho motor to ve vehicles a- a hides In America were to bo be con con- concentrated concentrated con concentrated upon that ono one on famous tr transcontinental road Tho The ato to mileage ot of American Amer Amer- AmerIcan American ican motor vehicle based on what Is an a erase a amount ot of 1 twining equals a 0 ro round round nd trip to the sun every ery twenty one ours hours and I Ithe the tho amount ot of gasoline for tor this annual mileage lies lis dur- dur durIng during Inc dur-Inc Ing the th last vear ear exceeded gallons Tho Th passenger j miles covered by motor cars can In the United 1 States Is la reckoned bv bI b air Mr r i Showalter as mi three times tines that or of orthe othe the railroads According to one on statistician the tho American are today spending more for tor auto auto- moth e transportation than any an other Item clothing and aad meats meals ex- ex excepted excepted America Is 18 pro eminently the th home homo of ot the th motor car points out Mr Showalter tor for the th 1 reason eason that wealth Health In this country Is much more e evenly enly distributed d than thon and moro more mor people can own cars cOors Thus Ie en out of ot epry thirteen motor vehicles In the tho n orld are In Am America and the four tour states Now New York New Jersey y and Maryland have halo more motor vehicles th than all the th rest ot of the world orld outside of ot the th United States front From time to time Urn those thos inter ested In the th automobile haw hl 0 speculated as a to the tho th point ot of saturation Fifteen n y years ars ago 0 It was as J maintained d that the th w wealth ot of the country countr could not support more thAn new nw cars a y year ar Then the mark was nos set Ret at and and and- after titter that at but the th saturation point Is fe not yet reached t Mr Showalter goes on to point out that In Its industrial economic Band and recreational effects the th devel desel- development ot of o tho the automobile hardly y a parallel among amone ins 10 Inventions Ind Industrially the th manufacture ot of cars care Is a a business ot of vast ast proportions proportions proportion tion Their distribution the dle- dle dispensing dis of ot gasoline and oil and the necessary repair are side aid lines that make business tor for e every eer er town and tillage mage In the land The Im- Im Improvement improvement Im Improvement provement of ot roads road has become one ot of the th largest Items In the th bUdget ot of public expenses With the In- In Increasing increasing In creasing efficiency ot of the th motor motorcar motorcar motorcar car mountains mounta and deserts are no longer barriers barrier and there thre ther are few tew places to n which the American tour tour- tourist tour I does doc not penetrate This It Is said ald ald Is I not only in the educational effect that comes come with the broader kno ledge of ot the th world but It making a race of snore moro efficient and moro more mor r self reliant self people 00