CONTENTS. 



Page. 



General Introduction 1 



Part I. Domestic Fuel 7 



Introduction 7 



The problem of smokeless domestic fuel 7 



The coke industry and its bearing on domestic fuel 12 



The gas industry and municipal by-product fuel plants 15 



Low-grade coals and by-product practice 19 



The production of coal 22 



Summary 26 



Part II. Petroleum 29 



Introduction 29 



The resource 30 



Nature 30 



Occurrence 31 



Origin 32 



Distribution 32 



The industry 33 



Production 35 



Transportation 42 



Refining 44 



Distribution 49 



The natural gas industry 50 



The limitation 53 



The petroleum reserve 53 



What petroleum exhaustion means 57 



The war situation 63 



The problem 67 



Prolonging the life of the petroleum reserve 68 



Discovery of new oil fields 68 



Elimination of wastes in production 68 



Greater extraction of values 72 



Development of foreign sources of supply 76 



Development of oil shales 77 



Development of substitutes 81 



The solution 83 



Fundamental causes of waste 84 



The laissez-faire policy 87 



The advisory policy 88 



The autocratic policy 89 



The constructive economic policy 89 



Discouragement of unrestricted competition in production 91 



Tapering use of oil as steam-raising fuel 93 



Encouragement of multiple-product (by-product) development. . . 95 



Encouragement of oil-shale development 99 



Encouragement of benzol and alcohol development 100 



Summary 101 



VII 



