Download or read book Potential for Cooperative Distribution of Petroleum Products in the South (Classic Reprint) written by John Marvin Bailey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Potential for Cooperative Distribution of Petroleum Products in the South Farm Income situation-fis 216. Econ. Res. Serv. Us. Dept. Agr. July 1970. From a big increase Of 250 percent from 1939 to 1949, the rate Of gain was 30 percent in the next decade, 20 percent in the decade from 1959 to 1969, and a 4 percent increase for 1971 over 1969. Petroleum products are also used on the farm for non-production purposes. These included gasoline and Oil for the personal use of automobiles and trucks and fuel Oil and LP gas for home heating, cooking, and water heating. In general, petroleum products used for non-production - household and personal use amount to about a fourth Of the total used by farmers. This amounted to about billion gallons and $700 million in 1968. The expenditure for 1971 is estimated to be $740 million. Farmers' total use of petroleum fuels thus was about billion gallons in 1968, and their expenditures for such fuels amounted to about billion. Estimated expenditure for 1971 is billion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.