ANOTHER WAR WOULD TAX U.S. PETROL RESOURCES TO LIMIT
CHICAGO, November 12. Another war involving the United States would put such a staggering demand on petroleum supplies that one immediate reaction was that there simply must not be another war, the chairman of the Military Petroleum Supply Advisory Committee, Mr Bruce K. Brown said today. Mr Brown said full use of jetpowered aircraft alone would require twice as many petroleum daily as was drawn from the western hemisphere daily by the entire United Sates forces in the last war and there was nothing to indicate that petroleum fuels would not have to power future wars. Instead of having an exportable surplus of petroleum and a potential production of 1,000,000 barrels daily the United States was now an importer of petroleum.'.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 November 1947, Page 5
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