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This quarter, with tank-car deliveries already above 900,000 bbl. a day, total supplies should average 1.4 million bbl. a day, only 200,000 below normal, prewar consumption. A clear surplus is visible if the savings (150,000 bbl. from conversion to other fuels, and 335,000 bbl. from gasoline and fuel-oil rationing) are subtracted from the 1.6 million bbl. prewar demand...
...Next summer, extension of the Big Inch to New York and Philadelphia will bring in 300,000 bbl. a day (a net addition of only 200,000 bbl., because tank cars now hauling from the Big Inch terminal at Norris City, Ill. must then go all the way to Texas). By next winter a second pipeline from Texas will add 110,000 bbl. (net), in 1944 will deliver still more...
...this adds up to a. tidy, theoretical 400,000-bbl. surplus over domestic demand under rationing. But: Eastern fuel-oil stocks must be built up (in winter demand goes well above the annual average) and military demands will probably soar. The difference between rationed consumer demand and maximum foreseeable deliveries is only a few insignificant tanker loads...
Civilians can hope for two bonanzas if things pan out well: 1) an end to fuel-oil rationing (which saves 90,000 bbl. a day); 2) a return to 3 gal. of gasoline a week (the cut to 1½-gal. saved at the most only 37,000 bbl...
...began switching to domestic wines, bought wineries outright because it was far cheaper than starting from scratch. Then last August WPB stopped all whiskey production, ordered the distillers to convert to war alcohol (TIME, Sept. 14). The distillers looked over their whiskey stocks, discovered they had 480,000,000 bbl., enough to last only two years unless the U.S. stops drinking so fast and hoarding so much. If the war lasts that long it would mean no whiskey to sell, dry rot in costly distributing organizations and the fade-out of valuable trade names. So the distillers went after wine...