Show I 1 gasoline from coald coal gasoline made from coal even when it comes into gener general aluse use probably will cost more than petroleum gasoline but at least motorists wont have to worry about shortages a research scientist dr R W krebs of baton rouge la has predicted he estimated that coal gasoline will cost from 10 to 15 cents more a gallon than gasoline currently in use but he added that the supply will be enough to last 1000 years the louisiana scientist asserted that anticipated world petroleum petra leum demands tor for the next 10 years make it mandatory that the oil industry investigate vesti gate the possibilities of manufacturing fac turing synthetic oil from natural gas coal shale tar sands and other sources he said petroleum industry spokes men have predicted thit world demand for oil by 1949 would approximate 10 million barrels af a day and that foreign consumption would increase rapidly because of increased mechanization |