Your talk has all been of the middle and upper classes, and of the benefits accruing to them, from increased oxygen-consumption.

But how about the others?
Every ounce of oxygen you take out of the air, leaves it just so much poorer.

Store thousands of tons of the life-giving gas, in monster tanks, and you vitiate the entire atmosphere.

How about that?
How can even the well-to-do breathe, then, out-doors, to say nothing of the poverty-stricken millions ?" Flint grimaced, showing a glint of his gold tooth--his substitute for a smile.
"That's all reckoned for," he answered.

"I thought I made it quite clear, in our previous talk.