Dear Google answers Team! It quite a time that I know this service,
but it’s the first time I use it. I thing it’s very a great idea.

My Question:
I want the total quantity of vegetal and mineral oil, in litre, sold
in Canada and US. Not petrol!, but like Oliver oil, canola oil, soya
oil, peanut oil…
I want it for few years (3 to 5), by province and states.

Thank you in advance.

Vincent;

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Request for Question Clarification by leader-ga on 18 Mar 2003 15:59 PST

Dear talou-ga:

I know a very authoritative resources which list the
imports/exports/trade balance and a couple of other data of different
types of vegetable oils and hundreds of other resources for Canadian
and US states for the last ten years (can be modified to fit your
needs). Is that something that will help you?

Thanks,
leader-ga

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Clarification of Question by talou-ga on 18 Mar 2003 23:01 PST

Yes that can answer to my need… The import/export are important. But I
will like to have the inside production and the inside selling.
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In the way to help you to understand, I will tell you why I need it: I
have a new kind of vegetal oil to put on the Canadian and American
market. I want to know in liters how big is the market, in the way to
see; if the market part I need for start my business are possible to
be take.
Ex (only a exemple): The Canadian produce 100 000 liters of olive oil.
They buy 150 000 liters a year. So they import 50 000 by example. If I
need to sell 10 000 liter to be in the race, then it become possible
to take this part of the market. But if the Canadian buy only 30 000
liter of vegetal oil and need 20 000 liter to have a paying business.
Then I forget it…

Hope that help…
Thank.

Talou;

I'm sorry you got no answer. I will guess 990 million liters total per
year. That is about 3 liters per year per person. Perhaps 10% is used
to make freedom fries = French fries until recently. There is a
potential for 500 million liters to make freedom fries and other deep
fried foods, but presently animal fat is used extensively for deep
frying. One large fast food chain tried vegetable oil, but they got
complaints from their customers. If your oil makes freedom fries that
taste as good as deep frying in animal fat, you can capture much of
this market especially if your oil is as good or better than olive oil
at reducing cholesterol. I have not seen olive oil called oliver oil
before.
 Canada has a much smaller population than the USA, but I think their
oil use is similar per person. Mineral oil is more like the oil from
which petrol is made, so your oil may be a poor substitute, especially
as a laxitive. I'm not aware of other uses for mineral oil, so I
allowed very little mineral oil in my estmate.
 Canada is a large producer of canola oil, but some people are of the
opinion that canola oil and oil from some other kinds of seeds is
dangerious if slightly over heated. If your oil is obtained from seeds
it may get significant opposition.
 Nearly all the olive oil is imported, but I doubt sales exceed 20
million liters per year as olive oil is much more expensive than
competing oils and many Americans and Canadians don't like the taste
of olive oil. The USA produces considerable soya oil, peanut oil, and
cottenseed oil, but I will guess about 1/2 is imported. A considerable
quantity is hydrogenated, which converts the licquid oil to a solid
similar to butter. Several kinds of vegetable oil are hydrogenated so
likely your oil is also sutable for hydrogenating.
 My wife and I get almost half of our annual oil use from products
similar to Blue Bonnet (a butter substitute) this batch is made from
licquid soybean oil, partially hydroginated soybean oil, and 35% other
ingrediants (perhaps 30% water) The label says zero cholesterol.
 A break down by states and provinces will likely be difficult, but I
suspect it is very close to proportional to the population as I am not
aware of any regional preferences for vegetable oil, other than
California which likely prefers vegetable oil over animal fats.   Neil

I'm not aware of any trend toward increase or decrease of the sales of
vegetable oil. My 990 million liters is more likely low than high, so
you can likely do well if you can capture several percent of this very
large market.  Neil