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Show leading gasoline user of gasoline, gas-oline, while Texas, with 6.4 billion gallons, replaced New York as the number two gasoline consumer state. Alaska remains re-mains number 50 among the states with. 1970 sales of just 102 million gallons of gasoline. Gasoline Use Is Up in 1970 Salt Lake City, Utah-Consumption of gasoline in Utah increased in-creased in 1970 compared to the previous year, accordingto E.I. Allen, chairman of the Utah Petroleum Council. Total gasoline consumption in Utah in 1970 was 603,624,000 gallons, Allen reported. By comparison, Allen pointed out, gasoline in 1969 amounted to 588,875,000 gallons. Mr. Allen said that 1970 gasoline consumption in Utah was 2.5 percent higher than the previous year. This compares com-pares with a nationwide increase in-crease of 3.9 percent in gasoline consumption. The 1970 national total of 88.6 billion gallons shows a -46.6 percent increase over gasoline consumption in 1960. " California, with 9.2 billion gallons, continued to be the |