PETROL SUPPLIES LOW
SEARCH FOR SYNTHETIC. “Discovering a substitute for gasoline is the most vital problem for the application of chemistry to the future,’' is the report of a research chemist to the American Chemical Society. This report disclosed the result of investigations showing that the weight of gasoline going into automotive industry is more than 5& times the weight of its nearest competitors—iron and steel. While there is no immediate prospect of a serious gasoline shortage, the petroleum resources of the world are not inexhaustible, and ultimately some other fuel will be needed to supplement or replace petrol. Germany is leading the rest of the world in this research, the report stat.es. Several processes for a synthetic motor fuel have already devised there, the more important of which are the Berg'ns and Fischer processes, both of which use coal as the raw material.
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Shannon News, 2 March 1928, Page 4
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144PETROL SUPPLIES LOW Shannon News, 2 March 1928, Page 4
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