期刊名称：IAEE Energy Forum (formerly: IAEE Newsletter)
印刷版ISSN：1093-4243
电子版ISSN：1944-3188
出版年度：2006
卷号：4
页码：18-18
出版社：International Association for Energy Economics
摘要：In the fall of 1979, when the IAEE convened its first
International Conference in Washington DC, the stock and
financial markets were in turmoil, the oil price in the process
of doubling and the Middle East ablaze and fearful after the
expulsion of the Shah of Iran by radical and fundamentalist
revolutionaries. One half of internationally traded oil then had
to pass the narrow and vulnerable Straits of Hormuz dominated
from the long coastline of Iran by the well-equipped and
well-trained Iranian navy and other armed forces. Armageddon
was again being preached, a mere six years after the quadrupling
of the oil price and the Middle East embargoes of
1973-4 had demonstrated the power of the key oil producers
to induce very rapidly global inflation, economic recession
world-wide and financial mayhem. In Washington, energy
security was again at the top of the political and economic
energy and within one year, Iraq and Iran were locked in an
8-year war (1980-88) which claimed a million young lives
and which blighted the hopes and welfare of a whole generation
of Iranians and Iraqis.
