Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 153, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1920 — Page 14
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OIL SUPPLY IS OF CONCERN TO AUTO DRIVERS Investigator Finds Need of Steps to Develop New Motor Fuel. 2 SOURCES NEGLECTED WASHINGTON, Not. 6.—There Is no subject upon which you cn collect more misinformation than that of our failing supply of petroleum. And It la a subject that comes home to every one who rides In an automobile In the form of a high price for gas, and of frequent alarms as to the complete failure of the supply. These alarms are generally offset by equally stirring tales of enormous sup. plies of oil untapped, or of the discovery of substitutes which will soon maJte us as Independent of petroleum as petroleum made us Independent of whales for an ell supply. The humble owner of a flivver doe* not know whether to believe that he may be robbed of his fuel supply, or that the supply la inex&austible, or that he will have to change his carburetor preaently and use a fuel made out of alfalfa, shavings and waste paper. Likewise he is sometimes tempted to believe that he will have to go to war and fight for a supply of gas with other nations and at other times he Is encouraged to think that the United States will be ss independent In this respect for all time as the lrreconcilables would have It be in political questions. OIL QUESTION USED AS MEANS TO END. The oil supply question, like every other vital question In America, has been converted Into a frightful bugaboo which Is used to scare us by all sorta of Interested and mischievous persons, as boys use a hollow pumpkin and a sheet on Halloween. People that want to invade Mexico and people who oppose Intervention, people that want to stir up feeling against England and people that want us to lope her, people that want a high price for gas and people that want a low one, all use this question as a means to an end, and all of them can find figures to support their several contentions. Yet the facts about the oil supply are comparatively simple, according to the Buresn of Mines. The consumption of gasoline In this country Increases at an alarming rate. That Is the first Important fact. It looks as though we would always ate all the gas we can get. Barring some Improbable great finds of ell In this country, we will always live In fear of a shortage and we will occasionally suffer from a temporary shortage at least. .... We are dependent upon constant new discoveries for keeping up our supply. From 20 to 35 per cent of the oil we ose in any year comes from new wells. We are, to some extent, like the tramp who never knows where the next meal Is coming from, but who nearly alwafs finds It somewhere. Bach year there is a little oil boom or .
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a big one somewhere In the United States, and that oil boom save* the situation. If a year or two should pass without the opening of new wells of substantial value, there would be a shortage which probably would continue until new finds were made. In other words, while the end of oar known oil supply Is just a little way ahead, our unknown oil supply keeps coming to the rescue. But it Is not a thing to rely upon. Then, too, our known oil supply Is being stretched in ways that were not dreamed of a few years ago. Wells In old fields,' such as that at Bradford, Pa., which were supposed to be about exhausted, are being made to yield, by ingenious methjds. Water flooding, and the forcing of a .flow of oil by means of compressed air ere the best of these methods. Asa result of what they have shown, some experts believe that we have not been recovering more than 20 per cent of the oil from our wells, and they believe that our estimate of oil supply In this country must be Increased at least 60 per cent and perhaps 100 per cent. THKEE SO' RCES OF MOTOR FUEL SUPPLY Our supply of motor fuel may be supplemented chiefly In three ways. In the first place, motor fuel may be obtained from coal by coking it and also from natural gas. Neither of these aourees offers s solution of the problem, of course, because | the coal and gas supplies are lnadej quate. But they will help. Especially Important is the growth of j the tendency to coke all coal befo*e It |is used as furnace fuel. In the second place, we hve vast deposits of shales containing petroleum which science has found ways of extracting. The supply of oil in the oil shales is vastly greater than that In the known fields of free oil. These oil shales have repeatedly been
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neld up as a complete solution of the problem. Asa matter of fact, they are no Immediate aolutlon at all. The extraction of oil from the shales ts hardly on a commercial basis yet, and the mere digging of the shales would take almost as many men as It takes to dig our coal supply. It Is reasonable to hope that the oil shales will ultimately supply a large part of cur needs for petroleum, and It is comforting to know that this great potential supply Is at hand In our own country; but It must be borne !r wilnd that we have not yet learned how to get at this treasure. ALCOHOL COST PROHIBITIVE. The use of alcohol as a motor fuel, and erven as a source of all power, has also been the subject of much misrepresentation. Alcohol can be made from most vegetable matter, and vegetable matter renews itself indefinitely. Therefore here Is theoretically an Inexhaustible source of motor fuel. But here again the whole technique of producing the fuel remains to be discovered. Alcohol is now worth three times as
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much as gasoline. From the leaves of forest trees enough alcohol could be made to run all the automobiles In the country, but the cost of gathering the leaves la prohibitive. Enough vegetable matter goes to wssts on farms and In sawmills to make an alcohol supply 'adequate for our motor fuel needs, but here against the coet of gathering this widely scattered material and making It Into alcohol is prohibitive. The Inertia of our industrial system must be taken Into account here. ' Government bureaus are doing a little experimental work on both oil shales and alcohol production, but not much. If scientific commissioners of the highest character were constituted to look into these matters, and were given all necessary funds to make experiments on a commercial basis, we would certainly progress more rapidly toward a solution of the motor fuel problem. But the interests that sell us our fuels at high prices are not Interested In creating large supplies of cheap fuel, nor do they care to have the Government do It. And the Government dances more te
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