Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 37, Number 2. 13th March 1974
The Army gets the gas
The Army gets the gas
Washington (NS)—The Pentagon reported last week that it is requesting a 15 per cent increase in its fuel allocations for the first three months of 1974.
Rear Admiral Nathan Sonenshein, the Defense Department's director of energy, will ask that petroleum products supplied to the military be increased by nearly four million gallons a day. If the request is granted, it will mean that US defense installations will be consuming an incredible 30 million gallons of fuel every 24 hours.