HUGE DRAIN ON U.S.
PETROL RESOURCES
EFFECTS OF NEW WAR
NO EXPORTABLE SURPLUS
(N.Z. Official News Service.) (11 a.m.) CHICAGO. Nov. 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 supply advisory committee, Mr. Bruce K. Brown, said‘today. . _ Mr Brown, who was addressing the American Petroleum Institute, said that full use of jet-powered aircraft alone would require twice as much petroleum daily as was drawn from the Western Hemisphere daily by the entire United States forces in the last war. There/ was .nothing to indicate that petroleum fuels would not have to power future wars. The United States supply situation had changed so much that, 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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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22484, 13 November 1947, Page 5
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