SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Vor. 2.] MARCH, 1920. Ds leNos: 
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Liquid Fuel. 
HE British Anti-profiteerimg Sub-committee on the Price of 
Motor Fuel has reported that the situation as regards supplies 
of petrol is alarming, and has strongly expressed the opinion 
that the ultimate solution of the liquid fuel problem is the 
production of alcohol for power purposes. Discussing this 
report in a recent speech at Sydney, the Prime Minister pointed out 
that the question of liquid fuel supphes is of vital importance to Aus- 
tralia from the stand-point both of national defence and industrial 
development. The Commonwealth depends almost solely for her 
supplies of liquid fuel upon the outside world, and imports about 
20,000,000 gallons of petrol, and a larger quantity of kerosene, per 
annum. These supplies are drawn not even from other parts of the 
Empire, but from foreign countries. Any circumstances which deprived 
the Commonwealth of its requirements would seriously embarrass the 
industrial life of the community, and would practically paralyze all 
efforts at defence from outside aggression. From the industrial point 
of view alone, Australia has everything to gain from a thorough explora- 
tion of all possible sources of liquid fuel unless she is content to continue 
to pay more than her competitors for a commodity which is now the 
basis of modern industry. 
The assurance of the Prime Minister that the Government would 
do anything in its power to encourage the manufacture of power- 
aleohol for fuel purposes, and that, for that purpose, the services of 
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