ABSTRACT
The tenth world energy conference took place during the third week of September 1977, in Istanbul. The private companies in the oil business sent along some influential representatives to exchange ideas with university lecturers and with managers in the public sector, from the state-owned energy companies. The level of world energy consumption has risen in leaps and bounds. The increase has gone hand in hand with the growth of industrial production and the spread of a comfortable standard of living among an ever greater number of people. Many people who can hardly be certified as insane have suggested that the energy famine might induce the overarmed super-powers to carry out desperate attacks on oil-producing countries in the twenty-first century. The transport problem is particularly remarkable in the United States. It is a dirty fuel which pollutes everything, spoils any landscape it occupies, makes those who use it feel sick and provokes constant hatred from all ecologists.
