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 Help Do Your Bit By Saving Gasoline

��HOW WASTAGE OF 561.000,000 GALLONS OF GaS^INE YEARLY CAN BE AVOIDED

��DAOy PRODUCTION 6.6^9.000 OALLOKS 100-^

���TANK WAGON L055ES 7.200 GALLOhiS O.l WASTtP ATGARA&E5...1. /."ixj U5EP FOR VASniNG.... li**^ '

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��POSSIBLE DAILY SAVINGS 1.500.000 GALLONS 22%'

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��MOTOR BOATS. STATIONARY AND TRACTION fNGlNES. AIRPLANES. CLEANING, ,^,; ETC ......30%

��ESSENTIAL DAILY NEEDS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES 3,300.000 GALLONS 46%

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��TOTAL POSSIBLE SAVINGS PER DAY, 1500.000 GALLONS TOTAL POSSIBLE SAVINGS PER YEAR. 561,000.000 GALLONS ESTIMATED WAR NEEDS PER YEAR. 350,000,0 00 GALLONS

��Poster prepared by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce showing how to avoid wasting gasoline

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��ONE way to win this war is to insure a sufficient supply of fuel by eliminating gasoline waste. Look at the accompanying illustra-^ tion and you will see that there is a daily waste of one million, five hundred thousand gal- lons out of a total daily production of nearly seven million gallons. This is needlessly large.

For war needs of the army, navy and avia- tion branches, nine hun- dred and fifty-nine thou- sand gallons of gasoline must be had each day, which is less than two- thirds of what may be considered as wasted at present. Were owners of automobiles to stop needless mileage, nearly nine hundred thousand gallons of gasoline could be saved each day.

The very highest gradeofgasolineisneces- sary for the thousands of airplanes now building, most of which will use the new Liberty motor, now being made in great numbers in the automobile factories. Great quantities of gasoline will also be re- quired to operate the thousands of army motor trucks to be used by our growing force in France.

Although the pro- duction of crude oil in this country has been increasing at a tremen- dous rate for a number of years, during the past twelve months it has not kept pace with the growing demand.

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