Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubareview18muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931. (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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14 T HE C U B A K 10 V I K W
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Tanktr Discharging ()il at Dock of Cuban Central Railroad, Cienfuegos, for the Texas ()i\ Co. CRUDE OIL FOR FUEL IN CUBA By H. O. .\evtlle Pre\ious to the difficulties which arose with the scai'city of sliippiiifr during the War recently ended, the use of oil as fuel for our sugar mills and railways had from time to time been suggested but never with such persistence as to bring about the changes required in order to permit it to compete with coal. A concession given by ('ul)a's Government to an oil company, a subsidiary of one of the large companies in the North, for the introduction of crude petroleum for refining and other purposes, and high duties on crude petroleum of any character authorized by Congress in order to uphold and maintain this concession, made the use of oil for fuel purposes impos.sible. It did not take long, however, after the War began and after shipping became scarce, for Cuba's sugar industry to com- mence the agitation of the entry free of duty of crude oil. This, of course, re- sulted, as had previous attempts, in objections being raised by the company holding the concession, but their olijection was met and overcome by the limitation of the privilege of importation of crude oil to that class of oil which either was not adapted to refining piu-poses. being suitable only for use -as fuel, or of those oils which had l)een refined abroad to such an extent as to be further serviceable only as combustible. The law providing for the entry of crude petroleum for fuel was passed July 14fh, 1917, and is known as "la ley de petroleo," and provided for the payment upon imported fuel oil of such a duty as would make the cost of the oil the same as that of coal in relation to their respective steam producing capacities. In other words, as it is estimated that 4 barrels of the average fuel oil is equivalent to one ton of average quality coal, the duty was so fixed as to make the diify on this

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