TO HELP FARMERS.
Turning Potatoes Into Motor Fuel. Irishmen are to turn their potatoes into motor fuel. This is Mr de Valera’s latest plan for aiding farmers in the Free State. Surplus potatoes will be purchased from farmers, and in the five Government distilleries to be established they will be converted into industrial alcohol. If the scheme is successful farmers will be asked to grow a special kind of potato which has a higher starch yield. As soon as production is started legislation will be passed to compel petrol companies to mix their motor spirit with the industrial alcohol. During next year 600.000 gallons of potato spirit will be used for this purpose. The cost of production of the industrial alcohol will be about 2s per gallon. Motorists are already complaining that they will have to pay twice for the Government’s “ little experiment ” —first as taxpa} r ers and then as motorists by paying more for their spirit.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20477, 1 December 1934, Page 23
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