The  citations  are  of  interest,  not  only  as  showing  the  need,  but 
as  indicating  the  character  of  information  needed. 
As  to  the  means  of  securing  the  information,  it  is  clear  that  it 
should  devolve  upon  some  branch  of  the  federal  government  to  col- 
lect and  publish  pertinent  statistics. 
As  indicated  in  this  report,  the  quality  of  gasoline  is  difficult  of 
measurement  and  has  probably  deteriorated  during  recent  years. 
Various  products,  all  called  gasoline,  are  sold  under  a  common  name, 
and  the  result  is  confusion  in  which  inferior  qualities  may  be  sold  at 
the  price  of  superior  ones.  There  has  been  a  trend  toward  putting 
on  the  market  blended  products  which  often  contain  such  quantities 
of  nonvolatile  (high  boiling  point)  products  as  to  give  very  unsatis- 
factory results  in  the  more  important  classes  of  gasoline  engines. 
The  recommendations  and  suggestions  of  the  Commission  con- 
cerning the  foregoing  matters  are  as  follows : 
(i)  As  to  Common  Ownership. 
I.  With  respect  to  the  application  of  the  present  antitrust  laws, 
the  Commission  makes  the  following  findings,  and  has  taken  action 
thereon  as  prescribed  by  law. 
The  Commission  finds : 
1.  That  the  several  Standard  companies  have  maintained  a  dis- 
tribution of  territory  in  the  marketing  of  gasoline,  and  that  no  sub- 
stantial competition  in  the  chief  petroleum  products  exists  among 
the  several  Standard  companies. 
2.  That  this  absence  of  competition  is  due  to  a  community  of 
stock  ownership,  which  community  of  interest  is  the  result  of  the 
ratable  distribution  of  stock  under  the  dissolution  as  ordered  by  the 
court. 
3.  That  the  facts  disclose  such  advances  in  prices  of  gasoline  and 
such  differences  in  price  corresponding  to  Standard  marketing  ter- 
ritories as  are  not  possible  of  explanation  apart  from  the  foregoing 
conditions. 
4.  The  Commission  has  found  no  direct  evidence  of  collusion 
among  the  several  Standard  companies  in  violation  of  the  dissolution 
decree. 
Section  6  (c)  of  the  Federal  Trade  Commission  act  provides  that 
the  commission  shall  have  power — 
Whenever  a  final  decree  has  been  entered  against  any  defendant  corpora- 
tion in  any  suit  brought  by  the  United  States  to  prevent  and  restrain  any  vio- 
