San Francisco, Dee. 1.
Oil and gasoline consumption, to the ordinary person, mean so many. miles per gallon and how much they have to pay for them, but " the expert is concerned with the question Jof total supplies and how long they will last. Mr. Henry L. Doherty, an eminent authority, is quoted by Petroleum Age" as saying that, there is no proof and little likelihood that the United States can much. longer even maintain her present rate of production. I was discussing this question a day or two ago with three well-known oil men in Long: Beach (the seat of the famous Signal Hil), and, though they would: not commit themselves, two of them. admitted that years' of careful scrutiny of the whole oil situation in this country had given them the same opinion—that long before any. other power is developed as possible means of replacing of, oil supplies would give out. If is true, there is a hectic time ahead for all those who now use oil or gasoline—and who does not? as, Dehn ape that yo one
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