The Mineral Industries of the United States

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Excerpt from The Mineral Industries of the United States: The Energy Resources of the United States, A Field for Reconstruction Because it seems inevitable that sooner or later the energy re sources oi the United States must be employed more systematically and effectively than they have been in the past, this study has been made with a view toward setting forth a working plan for bettering the situation. This is done in the belief that the sustained conduct of the war and the future welfare of the country both demand con sideration and action in respect to this matter. While it is commonly known that our present utilization of fuel is wasteful, it is not gen erally appreciated how very serious and extensive this default has become, how many lines of progress the current practice in this field is blocking, and how distinctly and heavily the whole matter is contributing to the cost of living. While the color of sensational ism is to be deprecated, the assertion can not be avoided that this country has within its reach the means for effecting a saving in the matter of its energy supply of well over a billion dollars a year. This paper points out those means. In this one direction alone lies a gain sufficient to recoup much of the expense of the Great War. 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.