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Show Evaporation of Gasoline Causes Big Yearly Loss Hlch price of gasoline may be attributed at-tributed by some automobile owners to stock market manipulation or other suspicious practices, but perhaps t.-real t.-real cause Is the waste accompanying the storage and sale of the fuel. Investigation, by experts of the United States Bureau of Mines and. engineers of a national asbestos manufacturing man-ufacturing organization, shows that there is a wastage of 200,000 gallons of gasoline each day. That means an annual loss of more than 72,000.000 gallons of fuel At 20 cents a gallon, I the experts figure, the annual econ-I omlc loss in the nation is ?14.500,000! Although this is scarcely 2 per cent of the amount of gasoline consumed annually In tho United States, it ls enough to run an automobile seven times back and forth between the earth and sun. The cause of this great wastage, say the Investigators, ls the; lack or heat insulation around tho 775 tanks storing tho fuel In various parts of the country. The oil In tho Uninsulated Uninsulat-ed tanks is subject to ovaporat'lon from the day's heat and there ls a resultant re-sultant loss of some 6,000,000 gallons a month. According to the experts, a f.5.000-barrel f.5.000-barrel storage tank holding gasoline will lose about 6 per cent of Its content con-tent . in one year. A similar tank, etorin j crude oil, will lose about 3 per c at from evaporation, and this 3 per ( ent loss will be almost entirely gasoline. This waste can be stopped, say theso men by insulating the storage tanks against the warmth of '-he outside air and the direct radiant heut of the sun. oo 1 |