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B-168700 1 (1974-04-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkog0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -r RELEASED B-1 0 8700 ft The Honorable Cla iborne Pell 11lI111HEII111I!!1II11I11!1! I TIIII United States Senate LM089682 d, Dear Senator Pell: This is in response to your letter of November 29, 1973, requesting us to update the schedules furnished you on April 19, 1973, showing ti ,time required and the costs incurred, by type of NAX iip, for making round t fprom s eli e c t e d h, ujvqppoo s sou.s aFuro ypn- ri-sio , ara a-s?. You asked us to compare this data with that for trips originating fro1 Newpoct, Rhode Island. You also requested that we show current anJ projected osts for the next fiscal year and that we eqiate the gllons of fuel consumed to gallons of home heatig fuel and automobile gasoline. As a -;ource of Navy distillate fuel consumption data, we used Navy -,tatistics taken from the hearings before the Senate Subcommitt.e on Military Construction on the subject of Base Closures or Realignment Program in Massachusetts, dated June 22, 1 73. The cost of Navy distillate fuel was obtained from the D( lense Supply Agency. Using this data, we computed fuel consum ption and costs for round trips by various types of ships to the Gibraltar area and the Bergen, Norway, area in the cur ent fiscal year and in fiscal year 1975. (See enc. I.) Is was the case with previous schedules furnished your offic , we have not verified the Navy's data. Officials of the Defense Fuel Supply Center and American Petroleum Institute told us they were unable to convert the gallons of Navy distillate fuel used to an equivalent number of gallons of home heating fuel and automobile gasoline. However, the Navy distillate can be refined into home heat- ing oil and gasoline. (See encs. II and 11.) They stated that Navy distillate fuel, which is heavier than number 2 home heat ing fuel, would be maripinally satis- factory for home heating without further refining and would ~'/&7 GCS%1

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