Excerpt from Travel USA Bulletin, Vol. 1: October 1948 The petroleum picture has shown a substantial degree of improvement during the past several months, although the possibility of temporary and local supply difficulties during periods of exceptionally severe' weather or abnormally heavy de mand remains. The very considerable increases in crude oil production and xc finery runs that continue to be realized, plus the substantial net import balance that has been attained this year, have made it possible to avoid any shortage of gasoline on the consumer level this sum mer and have minimized the possibility of a shortage of burning oil during next winter. Over all, however, petroleum continues to be in scarce supply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.