Ministers meet after storm

摘要

Opec meets in Vienna this week under searing global scrutiny after the Hurricane Katrina oil price spike.The UK government,which presides over the EU until the end of this year,is blaming Opec for high prices."Because this is,at root,a problem of demand outstripping supply,Opec must respond at its meeting on 19 September to rising demand by raising production," finance minster Gordon Brown said on 13 September.He called on Opec countries to invest in production and refining using the US300bn/yr of extra revenue they "are now enjoying" compared with two years ago.