Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1920 — BE CAREFUL OR GAS MAY GO TO FORTY CENTS [ARTICLE]

BE CAREFUL OR GAS MAY GO TO FORTY CENTS

Unless joyriders curtail voluntarily before Sept. 15 their present immoderate use of gasoline, they will bring about a steadily rising, price of more than 40c per gallon, or a system ' of rationing . effective in every state in the union. This is a warning from officials at Washington who are watching the diminishing supply. Approximately 10,000,000 owners of automobiles, power boats and airplanes would be affected by the rationing system. A tentative proposal of the refiners to cut down consumption thru an informal system of rationing throughout the country, to be applied entirely by the refiners themselves, though with the moral backing of the government, is now under consideration by government officials. . , ■ The gas situation now is declared to be more serious than it has been for months.