Motor Road Transport For Commercial Purposes
(Liquid Fuel, Steam, Electricity)

ECONOMIES : FUEL 171 also owing to our lack of thrift which.—notwithstanding the chances which. we have of creating an immense home and empire industry, of keeping the money in our own country, of obtaining cheap light, heat, and power, and 'of being independent of foreign supply— compels us nevertheless to pay year atter year enormous and ever increasing sums of money to other countries for our ■ oil imports ? Many people would have us believe that it is merely necessary to get the Excise regulations altered in order to have at once a national and limitless source of cheap power, and all that this would stand for. Such. a revolutionary change-over is a dream. The national employment of Industrial Alcohol can only comé about by broad minded encouragement on the part of the authorities, by hard work such. as is entailed in the building up of any industry, and by the progress of years. Advantages of Power Alcohol. To take first the advantages which are offered by such a fuel, for use in internal combustion engines—- (1) It is more homogeneous tlian petrol, and will mix with water. (2) Being a much less inflammable spirit than petrol, it is safer to handle, a feature which affects Insurance. (3) An engine operating on this fuel is quieter in running. (4) With the engine under load, the exhaust is purer than with most liquid fuels, such. as petrol, benzole, etc. (5) Greater thermal efficiency is obtainable with alcohol, owing to the faet that a higher compression pressure can be used. (6) For this reason it will stand a higher degree of temperature without self-ignition; it is admirably