Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1916 — Hint to Car Owners Better Buy Gas Now [ARTICLE]

Hint to Car Owners Better Buy Gas Now

Robert Stewart, director of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, appearing at a hearing before the city council of which has declined to issue permits to the company for five more filling stations until the rise of the price of gasoline has been adequately explained, declared Thursday that the price will continue to rise and said that ther is a possibility ot a world-wide gasoline famine. (Increases in the price of crude oil and the demand for gasoline and the prices for articles used in refining processes have sent prices skyward, he stated.