Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1976

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Moor, R. Carl

Abstract

This study was prepared to suggest feasible economic alternatives for the liquified petroleum gas distributors in Mexico. The Mexican government nationalized the petroleum industry in 1941 and in 1943 fixed the number of private enterprise L.P. distributors at forty. In 1950 the government set a top selling price to prevent unfair profits. The consumption of gas accelerated from a few wealthy families to the masses and with the alarming population boom and shifts in population many of the distributors' storage plants can no longer serve the public economically. Inflation increased operating and distributing costs to the point where many of the surviving thirty-two companies are operating at a loss. A survey of users was made to identify geographic demand today and in five years. A survey of the distributors was made for financial, organizational, and geographic analysis. Computer analysis was used to manipulate the projected data. A number of alternative models for private industry structure were constructed and the data used to project economic results of each. The study suggests various methods of combining private distributors to provide better service to the public while holding the selling price constant and optimize profits.

Extent

121 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.|College of Business|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.B.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.

Identifier

FADT13773

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