Clearly, over the next decade global competition for access to oil resources will grow increasingly intense. As an isolated island, Taiwan cannot link its power transmission grid to those of neighboring countries and buy electricity from them, but must stand on its own two feet. This makes the formulation of its energy policy all the more difficult.
最近中東局勢紛擾，石油價格飆漲至二次大戰後的新高點，可以想見，不出十年，全球石油爭奪戰將更形白熱化，而台灣身處獨立島嶼，無法以輸電線和鄰國相互連結，或是向鄰國購電求援，必須一切靠自己，更增添了能源政策制訂上的困難度。