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Show EXCESSIVE USE OF OASTO STOP Automobile Owners Must Stop All Unnecessary and Extravagant Extrav-agant Pleasure Riding. DRASTIC LAW PROBABLE United States Army and Navy Will Need Over 350,000,-. 000 Gallons a Year. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. Warning of tho possibility of drastic action by the federal government to stop excessive exces-sive uso of automobiles for pleasure during the war, in order that the gasoline gaso-line needs of the United States and its allies may be met, is given in a statement state-ment issued by Director Van H. Manning Man-ning of tho bureau of mines today, in which he asks the co-operation of automobile owners in stopping the practice. Enough gasoline to care for the requirements re-quirements of America and perhaps those of its allies will be saved, In the opinion of Mr. Manning, "if automobile automo-bile owners of the country will stop unnecessary and extravagant pleasure riding and if owners and dealers handle this fuel in a careful and economical eco-nomical manner. "There must bo no dilly-dallying about this supply of gasoline and there won't be," he said. Want Gasoline for Army and Navy "It is estimated that the army and navy will need for the year 350,000,000 gallons, and there are two ways of obtaining ob-taining it. In the first place, the joy rider whose pleasure is obtained by covering many miles at high speed can voluntarily give this up; tho man who takes his family on Sunday for a fifty-mile ride or more can cut this in half; every man who drives a machine ma-chine daily can ask himself if part of his riding cannot be obviated. "If the people continue to be thoughtless and unwilling to .do their patriotic bit in this respect, it may be necessary for the United States to tale drastic action which will stop excessive ex-cessive pleasure use of all automobiles. automo-biles. "It is estimated that one-half the gasoline used in tho United States (1,250,000,000 gallons) is used in pleasure pleas-ure riding. In my opinion a judicious use of the automobile for this purpose will cut this amount of gasoline in half, which would mean the saving of more than 1,000,000 gallons each day In the year " Director Manning concludes with the statement that his warning does not mean that automobile owners should lay up their cars or that anyone any-one should change his mind about purchasing pur-chasing a car. |