Catechism On Natural Gas
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CATECHISM -ON- NATURAL GAS PART OF GAS CONSERVATION PROGRAM OF DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF MINES WASHINGTON, D. C. REPARED ESPECIALLY FOR HOME ECONOMICS WORKERS TEACHING CORRECT USE OF NATURAL GAS IN THE HOME REPRINTED SEPTEMBER. 1920 REPRINTED JUNE. 1921 MAGNITUDE 1. How many towns in the United States have natural gas? Ans. About 2,000. 2. Of all the towns in the United States that have gas, what proportion have natural gas? Ans. About one-half. 3. How many domestic consumers are there in the United States using natural gas? Ans. About 2,500,000. 4. Of all the gas sold as a public utility service, in the United States, what per cent is natural gas? Ans. About 75%. 5. What is the geographic distribution of natural gas produc tion? Ans. West Virginia, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, Loui
...siana, Kansas, Texas, New York, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana produce more than 99% of the entire production in the United States. NATURAL GAS SITUATION 6. What is the real crux? Ans. This is aptly stated by the United States Fuel Administration as follows: "Natural gas is becoming scarce; the demands for natural gas are now greater than the available supply. When the present supplies are exhausted we must go back to the more expensive and inferior manufactured gas. The use of natural gas is not an inalienable right, but a privilege enjoyed by about 10 per cent of our entire population in the United States, and used in a most extravagant and wasteful manner with no regard for the future, and not appreciated until it is gone. / ' ?" 50 í "'?.' ' Wnaî'wui it'ooät'fo replace natural gas? Cost of Amount required to equivalent equal 1,000 cubic 1,000 cubic feet natura...
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