America's Five Million Pleasure Cars Represent 



If it were possible to concentrate into 

 one car the aggregate of 120,000,000 

 horse-power of the 5,000,000 pleas- 

 ure automobiles in the United States, 

 that car would be able to travel with 

 a speed of 155,000,000 miles an hour, 

 somewhat less than one fourth the 

 velocity of light. Ignoring speed 

 laws it would travel from the 

 earth to the sun in 35 minutes 



Each vehicle uses on the average 500 gallons of gasoline a year, a 

 total of 2,500,000,000 gallons. To pump all this gasoline would take 

 one of the modern fireboats eight months. In that time, if the city 

 had been in flames, that same fireboat could have thrown enough water 

 upon the buildings of Manhattan Island to drench every structure 



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