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 Dear Q & A: I saw an article recently about a family that used “cleaning solvent” in their gas tank during World War II, when gas was rationed, to let them drive across country. Sounds like a clever way to stretch the wartime fuel allowance. Was it?                                                   — Curt Dear Curt: If you had only an “A” sticker on your windshield, as most civilian drivers did during that period, you were permitted to buy only four gallons a week with your A coupons. For city dwellers, who had public transportation, that may have sufficed, but for many others it was far too little. So some daring people bought petroleum naphtha, then used mostly for dry cleaning, to add some miles to...
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