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INTRODUCTION
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... The principal vegetable oils, except for linseed oil, are used largely for food and only to a minor degree for industrial purposes. The total amount of fats and oils used for civilian consumption in the United States in 1970 for soap, drying-oil products, and other industrial products was 2.636 million pounds.
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... Source: The Outlook for Timber in the United States, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (1974)
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... Fortunately, existing data are adequate to chart past trends, to assess current production levels, and to make overall predictions of biological productivity of the major industrial renewable resources as of 1985 and 2000. For the duration of the present century, the productivity of the United States with regard to renewable resources used for industrial materials will be a function derived from present circumstances modified by projected changes in the availability of resources, the level of technology, and the nature of the economic and political situation.
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... Our report, therefore, estimates the biological productivity of industrial renewable resources in terms of current yields, existing land bases, and increments to these bases that may reasonably be forecast by 1985 and 2000. The forecast divides naturally into two parts: the silvicultural product of wood, and products for industry from agriculture consisting chiefly of vegetable fibers, oil seeds, wool, animal fats, tallows, and hides.
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... Even a majcr come-back in demand for natural fibers and natural oils for industrial materials would have little effect upon total United States consumption of petroleum. REFERENCE Anderson, L


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