PETROL FROM POTATOES.
If the price of petrol should go still higher it may give a fillip to the production of a cheaper substitute. Fuel oil for power purposes is already obtainable from vegetables, such as sugar beet, artichokes and potatoes, the starch and sugar content of which is converted into industrial alcohol. Ger. many deliberately grows far more potatoes than are required for eating and the surplus is used for producing spirit which drives machinery and even motor cars. In France tests were made a short while ago with a ne.w motor spirit derived from coal tar, which was found to be liighiy successful with aeroplanes, submarines and army motor lorries.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1929, Page 5
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112PETROL FROM POTATOES. Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1929, Page 5
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