小国的能源需求可以通过国际市场满足而不影响国际市场价格，但中国不同。一旦出现大量稀缺，必将推动国际价格上涨。美国还有很多煤炭，但不知道会以什么样的价格卖给你。现今，除了石油疯狂之外，铁矿石也已经成了疯狂的石头，今后煤炭会不会成为疯狂的煤炭？中国长久可靠的能源安全应当立足于国内储备，因为只有国内的能源才是价格和数量最终可控的。战略上需要考虑尽可能保持国内能源储备充足，需要限制能源以及高耗能产品的出口，以及尽可能利用国外的能源资源。
若不抑制需求，中国的能源稀缺可能会比其他国家严重，节能是中国国情的需要。节能的中心问题是能源价格。不想让能源价格持续上涨，就必须合理控制需求。主流能源的化石燃料是不可再生的，稀缺性会日益增强。只有将需求控制在一个较低的水平，价格才可能下行或不上涨很快。由于能源需求的“刚”性，发展中国家(“后来”能源消费国)的需求会增长较快，在全球能源需求中所占的权重将日益增大。对于不可再生资源，如果没有有效的替代，当总需求量大到足以导致稀缺预期时，推动需求快速增长的不是供给，而是价格。如果各国政府能源政策不当，能源价格将继续上行。
目前，无论是已知的，还是猜测的能源来源以及期望的技术进步，都不足以消除我们对能否有供给充裕、价格合理的能源和环境来支持中国经济长期可持续发展的担忧。

The energy needs of a small country can meet the international market without affecting the international market price, but different from mainland China. Once a large number of scarce, will promote the international prices. The United States there are a lot of coal, but I do not know what kind of price to sell you. Today, apart from madness outside the oil, iron ore also has become a crazy rock, coal will be the future of coal will not be crazy? China's long-term and reliable energy security should be based on domestic reserves, because only the domestic price and quantity of energy is ultimately controllable. Strategies need to consider as far as possible to maintain adequate domestic energy reserves, energy, and the need to restrict the export of high energy-consuming products, as well as the possible use of energy resources abroad.
Does not inhibit the demand for scarce energy resources in China than in other countries may be serious national condition of China's energy needs. The central issue of energy is energy prices. Do not want the continuing rise in energy prices, we must demand reasonable control. The mainstream of energy sources are non-renewable fossil fuels and the growing scarcity will. Only when the demand at a lower level, the price can be up or down quickly. Energy demand as a result of "just", and developing countries ( "Later" energy-consuming countries) will increase the demand for faster, in the global share of energy demand will be increasing the weight. For non-renewable resources, if there is no effective alternative, when the total demand large enough to lead to the scarcity of time is expected to promote rapid growth in demand not supply, but price. Energy policy if governments properly, energy prices will continue upward.
At present, whether it is known, or speculation, as well as the energy source of the expectations of technological progress, are not sufficient to eliminate the availability of our supply of abundant, affordable energy and the environment to support long-term sustainable development of China's economic worries.