Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1918 — An Important Difference. [ARTICLE]

An Important Difference.

The gasoline situation in this country is not to be compared With that in Europe. England and France are almost entirely dependent upon |mports of petroleum products and the ability to import is limited by lack of ships. •It is for this reason that the use of motorcars for private use has had to be suspended except for the most urgent requirements. America, on the contrary, Is the world’s largest oilproducing country and is unable to export more than one-quarter of Its gasoline production. To the extent that gasoline, kerosene and fuel oil are used for power purposes the supply of coal is conserved.