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Show fw FIGHT TARIFF 1 ON CRUDE OIL p I : Auto Association Thinks In I ) Import Charge Would iS Affect Car Owners. H Believing that the proposed tariff HH of 35 cents a barrel on crude oil. 25 H cents a barrel on fuel oil, and the proposed ?1 to 3 tariff on Up halt if H successful would materially and ad- yJRk-J- versely affect the Individual automo- Hg hile owners of the countp and add to t gr-Hf their already heavy upkeep, maintcn- HB ance and taxation burdens, the Amerl- can Automobile association iws en tered a vigorous protest ujuinnt theso I propoaals. Speaking In hehnlf of the owners of tnore than 10,000,000 motor vehicles ' the . A A i -resentatlves appeared before the I nited .Stntes senate com-tnlttee com-tnlttee on finance and made It plnln that the A. A. A- would fight to the laal fllteli any proposal designed to tnke any more revenue from the motor mo-tor car. While the A A. A. representative represen-tative went before the committer prepared pre-pared to combat only a 36 cenis a barrel taa on crude oil, they learned that certain Interests were even planning plan-ning oil tariff to the extent of 11 a barrel. In presenting urgument against a tariff, on oil. It was pointed out by the A. A A men that more than 10,000 - 000 automobile are owned in the 1 nitej States, or more than 83 per , ent of all the automobiles in the world. In contrast 1th which leps i W than 16 per cent of the world s oil supply is located in the I nlfed States Further facts presented b the A. A-v. A-v. h-how that wlillo the L nlted States holds less than 16 per cent of the world's oil sources, it la furnishing two-thirds of the world's annual re- I .juiremcnts and at the same time con- I Mimlnir more than three-fourths of the I world's total production w hich. It wne I pointed out. mnkes it necessary for I (Jnde Sam to Import mere than 20 I per cent to meet his own needs It I was asserted that any tariff which would prohibit or restrict the flow. -,f , 1 oil t this COUntrj would affect ad- I versely, In some form, nearly every Icitl.en unnin us uuiinrm. Son.o of the other points made by the A A. A a?a:nst a tariff arc aa follows. "If the production and sale of motor mo-tor vehicles continue! to Increase In the future aa In the past ten venrs it is not unlikely that we shall soon bo compelled to pure huso Immense quantities quan-tities of oil In foreign tountrles. "A tariff on oil would Dlace a premium pre-mium on the rapid depletion of this one of our greatest natural resources: furthermore It would enable nnd en-S en-S roiiruge foreign countries to monopolize monopo-lize foreign supplies of petroleum.'' |