ABSTRACT
The availability of energy, which for many years was just a thermodynamic term to engineers, has now become a familiar matter to many others in the United States and elsewhere. Because of demand, energy availability has become a matter of concern to every household in the United States. Allocations of fuel oil for heating, even the remote possibility of institution of regulated distribution of fuels, re¦ect the current state of demand. Many factors are involved, some of which are (1) energy requirements brought about by technology advances, (2) domestic local political atmosphere relative to development of energy resources on an orderly basis and even on an emergency basis, (3) worldwide energy reserves and their distribution, (4) political and economic developments within countries that have signiŸcant energy reserves, and (5) the international political-economic situation [1].
