Posted by oldtanker on January 24, 2014 at 22:43:02 from (66.228.255.116):
In Reply to: distalate fuel posted by jerry 4 on January 24, 2014 at 10:46:19:
LA actually the speed limit reduction to 35 was to make it faster to ride a train and discourage driving unless necessary. Sure it saved fuel but TX and LA were pumping oil like mad, new refineries were built and there was no fuel shortage. The shortage was rubber. We had oil and fuel, we had to import rubber. Keep people from driving and you save rubber. Some war production tractors were built with steel wheels to save rubber. We had oil but had to import rubber. Patton running out of fuel wasn't because there was no fuel. It was to give good old Monty the chance to make some head lines and give the Brits a moral boost. Patton was grabbing all the headlines with his "dash" across France. Monty had been nothing more than a side show sense the brake out from Normandy.
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