OPEC AND OIL PRICES

EEC Ministers Reject Energy Tax 

The EEC Energy Ministers have rejected the recent suggestion by the President of the European Commission, Mr. Jacques Delors, that the EEC should impose a tax on energy "to maintain efforts towards energy economy and replacement" (MEES, 17 March). Meeting in Brussels on 20 March, the Ministers agreed that there was "no reason to adopt new specific energy policy measures" in the face of the fall in oil prices, and...