Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1918 — MUST STOP GASOLINE WASTE [ARTICLE]

MUST STOP GASOLINE WASTE

UNITED STATES FUEL ADMINISTRATION SOUNDS IMPORTANT WARNING. A letter has been received from the United States fuel administration, bureau of oil conservation, in which co-operation is asked in the matter of bringing about gasoline and oil conservation. Among other things the letter, which is signed /by C. C. Winningham, chief of the gasoline section of the fuel administration, says: “Unless the wasteful methods in the handling and use of gasoline are at once corrected, it will undoubtedly be necessary for the government to control the distribution and the made of gasoline. AutomobiliSts would then be made to conform to the more severe control and, therefore, it is to the automobilists that we must go with a campaign of education that will point out to all users of oil and gasoline that wasteful usage must be stopped. “There is no desire to put the country on a fuel ration, but it is neces- ' sary that all users discontinue wasteful uses of fuel oil, gasoline, kerosene and all other oil products. “Motorists should not run their engines when the car is not in motion. They should avoid overfilling tanks and see that no oil or gasoline is spilled or permitted to leak. Carburetors should be adjusted to operate on the thinnest mixture. All unnecessary driving should be discouraged. “If sufficient gasoline and oil can not be saved from what is now warted in the ways above suggested, then such mandatory control as will assure the quantities needed for the conduct of the war will be inevitable.”