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Show 00 GASOLINE HAS kECORO OUTPUT Great Domestic Consump-i tion Serves to Reduce Immense Stocks. WASHINGTON, M ,r 22 Tho production pro-duction of gasoline in the United States reached a new figure In 1921. with an output of G, 168,649,818 gal- ' Ions, according to the federal fai m bu- I reau of mines. The figures show an increase in production of 271. 002, 669 Kallons o er the output for 1 9 2 in which year all previous production records re-cords were broken. On January I, is22, thore were .303 refineries, with a total dally Indicated capacity of I, 7SS 7 9 E IumIi nhMnllHa In ,1,- ,.r.lfu.l ..... ... .... v.... in states as compared with 328 operating op-erating plants having a daily indlcat-sd indlcat-sd capacity of 1,714 395 barrels In January Jan-uary 1 1921. These plants were operating opera-ting on a basis of 8" per cent of their indicated capacity on January 1, 1922 aud 81 per cent on Jcnuarv 1 1921. WKsi v whs HIQH More gasoline was produced on the east coast in 1921 thun in any other ectlOnal division, this reyion producing produ-cing 1 ,020,002..43 pallonx The next largest pOdUCtlOfl was In the Texas division, di-vision, where 978,888,081 gallons were produced. In Oklahoma and Kansas, 9riK,544.972 gallon were produced; Indiana and Illinois produced l2'..2'iZ -334 gallons, California, dl 5.236. 1 81 i gallons! Colorado and Wyoming, 359,- I 978,688 gallons. LOUiSlans and Arkan-1 sas, 322,191,0 7; piiiioni, Pennsylvania, 263.S92, 195 gallons. In May 1921. over 800 000 000 gallons gal-lons of gasoline were held in storage In the United States, this being the lar- j gest amount on record. On December 31. storage was 50.087,132 gallons, this being a little over 10 per cent of the output for the year. Domestic on-SUinptlOn on-SUinptlOn of gasoline for 1921 exceeded 1 f 2 bv I'fiO.llOft.llOO KlIloMS and 19 19 by 1 081,000,000 gallons Export.s and shipments for 1?21 amounted to dully average of 1,51 1.000 gallons This fiK-ure fiK-ure is 283.000 gallons less than tho daily figure for 1920. but -163,000 cnl-ons cnl-ons In excess of the dally average for 1919. Dunnjr the year 1921 the petroleum refineries of the United States ran 76.-325,C7ft 76.-325,C7ft barrels of Mexican crude oil. 2,746,16 barrels of Mexican tops and I 160,557 barrels of Mexican crude nap-tha nap-tha through the stills The Mexican crude ran during the past year exceeded exceed-ed that of 1980 bv 19 per cent. I'KODK'IION i;MIMATI.s The United States geological survey reports tho estimated production of crude oil in the United States for this year 1921 as 469.63',OO0 barrels, indi- 1 I ..lint, . "'"V .1 . w 1 286.682 barrels. The survey also estimates es-timates the total consumption of domestic do-mestic and Imported petroloum for the year 1921 as 525,407,000 barrels on an average of 1,439,471 barrel- per day It will bo observed that the Indicated dailv average capaclt) of th refineries in operation in the I'nlted States as of January 1, 1922 exceeds the dails uv-erago uv-erago ot domestic and imported crude consumed approximately 300,000 barrel;- No account is here 1-uken of the many Inoperative refineries in the country at the present lime. The production of kerosene reported report-ed to the bureau of mines for 1921 amounted to 1,946,126.168 gallons. 1 decrease of 374,969.287 gallons. Total To-tal domestic consumption of kerosene kero-sene for the past year was 1,240,550,-811 1,240,550,-811 Gallons Stocks of kerosene on hand December 31 1921. were 52,062,-269 52,062,-269 gallons less than the corresponding , date In 1 92 0. Gas and fuel oil production for 1921 amounted to 9,003.816,135 gallons, gal-lons, an increase of 802.364 204 gallons gal-lons over 1920. The domestic con-sumptlon con-sumptlon of gas and fuel oils in 1921 iiimvs an incrense of approximately one million gallons per day over the 1920 figures. The 192 1 production of lubricating oils amounted to 877.859.074 gallons, a decrease of 1 08.849.275 gollons. |