The Archive · 1924

The Price of Gasoline

To the Editor of the "Nowrn-Cmia Dany News."

Si.—Will some mathematician inform the writer and his fellow consumers why they have to pay }80 cents Mex. per gallon fox their gasoline in Shanghai, when it is obtainable retail at the approximate equivalent of 30 cents Mex. per gallon in U.S.A. to-day?

the suggestion of profiteering in one of the necessities of life is eliminated from the reply, where is the catch Enclosing my card, Tam, ete, Buve Hiro, Shanghai, Nov. 14, 1024,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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