PETROL AT 7½d PER GALLON.
RESULT OF KANSAS PRICE
WAR,
There was a petrol price-war raging in Kansas City when the last mail left (says the Dominion). One independent operator’ was selling station oil at 12,9 cents per gallon, exclusive of a one-cent city tax and a two-ceht state tax, which, altogether, means in English money 7Aci per gallon. That cut had followed one by the Standard Oil Company, of Indiana, which had reduced its price, less the taxation mentioned, to 14.9 cents pei gallon. When the price-war started with a 4 cent, cut by independent operators, in August, one independent dealer predicted that petrol would be selling in Kansas at 12 cents per gallon at Christmas the best of Christmas-boxes for carowners. The price was then 23.9 cents, including this. The reason for the cutting of prices was that certain independents in the trade believed that the price was being held up by artificial means.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2971, 5 December 1925, Page 2
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156PETROL AT 7½d PER GALLON. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2971, 5 December 1925, Page 2
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