石油价格只以美元计算已不止十年了。石油轨出国组织成员国的石油收入最近四年来就被叫做石油美元。美元作为石油计价基本货币的作用,甚至当美国仃止美元兑换黄金,接着又使美元两度贬值时,也仍然是不容争议的。可是从去年十月份以来,西方报刊上开始越来越多地报导石油 Oil prices have been calculated in U.S. dollars for more than a decade. Oil revenues from oil-orbit member countries have been called oil dollars for the last four years. The role of the dollar as the base currency for oil pricing remains undeniable even when the United States stops the dollar from trading for gold and then depreciates the dollar twice. However, since late October, the western press began to report more and more oil