According to an tiding of the Journal of Commerce refused the Bureau for coordination of the petroleum industry all transfers of tankers to the United Kingdom. At that moment were experiments going on to transport petroleum through pipelines from the oil fields to the East Coast. The capacity of other means of transport like wagons and tankers was limited and a transfer of tankers to England would damage American own interests.
The evening edition dated 27 August reported that according to the magazine Oil and Coal the United States Maritime Commission and petroleum commissary Ickes disagreed about the transfer of more tankers to England. England requested more tankers which was denied by Ickes while another 50 tankers would influenced in the reinforcement program in a negative manner which after all would damage the British interests. The Commission however expected that between 1 August and the end of 1943 the American yards would built 83 new tankers (of 72 so-called emergency tankers with a total gross tonnage of 774,000 tons and 11 tankers according to the long term program). Total building costs 223,600,000 American dollars.
The daily edition of the same newspaper dated 26 October reported that according to a tiding of the Associated Press from New York England intended to give 40 of the purchased American tankers back. This would end the limitation of the petrol consumption in the Eastern States of the United States.
The daily edition dated 29 September reported that as was common known tried the United States to expand the tonnage of tankers with foreign tankers. The United States Maritime Commission published recently a report of these efforts. The United States possessed at that moment over 215 foreign ships with a total tonnage of 1,395,000 tons suitable for the petroleum transport of which 88 with a total gross tonnage under British flag, 60 with a total gross tonnage of 498,999 tons under Panamanian flag and 14 with a gross tonnage of 96,400 tons under Norwegian flag. All most of these tankers were used on the lines England and the Western Hemisphere.
