PETROL FRUM £(.4ALE
JMKIivASIO IN AUSTRALIA Within two months Australia should be producing petrol from .shale at the rate of I<J,OOO,UCO gallons a year, and within 12 months home production of motor fuels, including benzol and power alcohol, should be It) per cent, of consumption, about .‘35,000.0dd gallons a year. Announcing this at the Rotal Automobile Club dinci iu Melbourne, the Minister of Suplpy, Air. R. (i. Casey, said that it was believed that eventual production weuldl be 20,000,000 gallons of petrol a year from shale. A detailed scheme of petrol rationing was ready, lint might never, he necessary. Petrol rationing would depend on (1) enemy action against tankers, (2) shortages in the world’s great refineries, and (3) the possibility of exchange rationing being introduced..
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 246, 13 October 1939, Page 4
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125PETROL FRUM £(.4ALE Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 246, 13 October 1939, Page 4
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