Re: Re: About gasoline, kerosene, and war rationin

Posted by Matt on June 04, 2004 at 18:35:00 from (68.118.198.110):

In Reply to: Re: About gasoline, kerosene, and war rationing... posted by Will in Ohio on June 04, 2004 at 12:46:39:

I think all the gasoline of the age was typically lower in octane than today...I thought it was just "technology" at the time more than rationing, though I suppose I could be wrong.

In the U.S. gasoline rationing was very much to conserve not gas -- but rubber. We were the world's largest petroleum producer back then, but many of the rubber plantations where under the Rising Sun. I suppose conserving rubber also made the rest of the car last longer, too.

That's why farmers in the U.S. had unlimited gasoline, while the U.K. had to conserve it since it was being shipped to them by boat.

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