Show n m THE EEE PRICE 0 OF GASOLINE fr gas sold for practically halt the price six or eight years ago that it brings today there is an old joke that gas goes up a cent a gallon every time the rockefeller family announces another benefaction according to that the rockefellers Rocke fellers must have been very generous in giving away their money during recent years because in places where gas sold for from 12 to 16 cents before the war the price is now around 28 cents there is such a strong suspicion that there Is profiteering in ga gasoline soline that the united states senate is going to investigate the situation reports from the geological survey show that the stocks of gasoline on hand have been large and that the production has been amply sufficient during the war the stocks were constantly depleted and the production was insufficient to meet the demands at one time the users of fuel oil had a hard time to get their supplies the results were particularly disastrous to the manufacturers of illuminating gas while this condition existed the prices kept going up gradually until a figure but little above the customary price of today was reached but there has been but little price reduction and in consequence the senate is turning loose the antitrust anti trust cyclone senator lafollette as its chief investigator |