615.    ---------------.   [COLLIERY GUARDIAN.]  Motor Fuels.  Vol. 159, 1939, p. 727.

     Australian Commonwealth Standing Committee on Liquid Fuels reports that the Government should exhaust the possibilities of accumulating large quantities of gasoline in storage and the production of other substitute fuels before embarking on the establishment of either hydrogenation or synthesis plants.  The cost of producing gasoline by hydrogenation or synthesis from either bituminous or brown coal would be about 1 s. 4 d. per gal.  A synthesis plant of 18,000,000 gal. per yr. capacity would cost pounds 5,000,000 and a hydrogenation unit of 45,000,000 gal. per yr. capacity pounds 12,000,000.  It is estimated that the cost to the consumer of synthetic gasoline from Victorian brown coal would be 2 s. 1 d. per gal.