By Prof. David Howell, Carole Nakhle
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But long before we get any results from cutting carbon emissions the world will probably be shaken by problems of security and supply disruption that could blow the highest hopes off course. International planners are turning their attention to ‘Beyond Kyoto’ ideas for carbon reduction, and rightly so in 36 THE PRICE OF THE PAST the sense that the Kyoto arrangements are ineffectual and need bypassing. But minds should also be on ‘Before Kyoto’, that is to say on today’s fragile energy supply scene.
Engineers moved away to other industries. 10 Not only did the sudden collapse of oil prices at the end of 1985 and the beginning of 1986 destroy incentives in the years following to spend big money on exploration and drilling for new reserves and for developing fields in areas which were both remote and dangerous. At the same time investment in upto-date refinery capacity ceased altogether. A. was built in 1976, although the Iranians are reported to be building new ones now) and in a serious mismatch between the kind of crude oil existing refineries can handle (mostly the light or so-called ‘sweet’ variety) and the heavy sticky stuff the giant oil wells of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states now produce.
There must be more oil production, more coal production, faster nuclear power station building and more conservation and energy efficiency – and if possible, ‘dialogue’ with OPEC, the fearsome oil-producers’ cartel which seems to be holding the world to ransom. Otto Lambsdorf shakes his head. No special intervention is needed because markets and events are already taking care of the situation. The growth of demand for oil round the world has already slowed, while new oil supplies are being opened up everywhere.