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THE annual importation of petrol into this country rose to more than 100,000,000 gallons before the war. Most of this came from the United States. At that time the consumption in the States was about ten times this figure, but in 1919 will probably prove to be not less than thirty times as much. With these values to face it is impossible not to wonder whether the rapid expansion of usage in the States will allow the exportation—at any practicable price—of even the small relative quantity used in the United Kingdom before the war, to say nothing of any additional supply to meet the growth of our own needs for road, sea, and air.
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Power Alcohol . Nature 103, 469 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103469a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/103469a0