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PMAA - Petroleum Marketers Association of America

United States
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The Petroleum Marketers Association of America (PMAA) is a federation of 47 state and regional trade associations representing approximately 8,000 independent petroleum marketers nationwide.

PMAA member associations represent wholesalers and retailers of gasoline, diesel, heating oil, lubricants and renewable fuels. Additionally, these companies supply motor fuels to 40,000 independently owned retail outlets and heating oil to seven million homes and businesses. They sell their product under either their own private brand or the trademark of their supplier.

The majority of PMAA marketers are small businesses serving homes, farms, business and industry. When Small Business Administration guidelines are applied to the PMAA membership, the majority of marketers fall within SBA jurisdiction.

The origins of PMAA date back to 1909 when the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of the United States was formed. That group died out but in 1940 another national organization, the President’s Council of Petroleum Marketers Association, was formed. In 1948, that group became the National Oil Jobbers Council. In 1984, NOJC changed its name to PMAA.

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Kathryn Neidigk Retired

I think it would be a petroleum marketing win if the petroleum industry could figure out how to lay water lines beside their petroleum distribution lines, and distribute fresh water FROM parts of the US (and Canada) that have too much water, TO parts of the US that need water.

As the Oglala Aquifer, and the Rio Grande River and the Colorado rivers dry up, farmers and cities will be thirsting for fresh water and willing to pay for it. Many cities and towns and states would probably love to avoid the legal fees required to fight for their water....and prefer instead to simply pay to increase their supplies of fresh water.

This would be a very good public relations win for the industry that already has lots of the needed infrastructure in place....the petroleum industry!