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...states have made alcohol mixtures mandatory. In the U. S. alcoholic gasoline is a subject of controversy among fuel chemists, their views depending on whether their allegiance is to farm or refinery. Completely contradictory statements on alcohol blends were uttered from the same platform last week by Leo Martin Christensen of the Farm Chemurgic Council and Dr. Gustav Egloff of Universal Oil Products...
...Christensen: Alcohol-gasoline blends distributed in the Midwest during the past three years have met with excellent consumer response. Better mileage, improved acceleration, practical elimination of gum and carbon deposition, smoother and more pleasing engine operation have been . . . commonly reported...
...Christensen: Alcohol-gasoline blends are no more corrosive to any engine part than is gasoline...
...agriculture, Mr. Christensen says that root crops do well because of the long days, but shipping costs preclude development of an outside market; and in his day, not even Alaskans could be persuaded to eat the soggy Alaskan potato. What with the hardships of clearing the land, the short summer season, the extremely cold winters, the plague of mosquitoes and other insects, Mr. Christensen considers the colonists' prospects so glum that the Government will be obliged to support them and eventually return them to the States...
...Northern States, potatoes in Idaho and Maine, sugar beets in the West, sorghum in the South, sugar cane in Louisiana, Jerusalem artichokes can be turned into alcohol. If produced on a large scale such alcohol could be produced for from 7 to 10? a gallon, figured Dr. Leo Martin Christensen of Iowa State College. At that price it is cheap enough to mix with gasoline as a motor fuel, especially if any need occurs to conserve U. S. fuel supplies. But to build the requisite huge farm distilleries requires considerable capital, probably Government aid, and therefore seems not wise...