BONN (AFP) ??” Germany warned the biggest-ever discourse on renewable energy that the wave in oil prices triggered on terrorism in Saudi Arabia highlighted the world's dangerous addiction to black gold Speaking to ministers and representatives from 154 countries.

BONN (AFP) ??” Germany warned the biggest-ever discourse on renewable energy that the wave in oil prices triggered on terrorism in Saudi Arabia highlighted the world's dangerous addiction to black gold

Speaking to ministers and representatives from 154 countries, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder pleaded with the world to understand this risk to security and prosperity, and to diversify its bottom sources accordingly.

"Overwhelming interdependence on oil has enormously increased our vulnerability to this form of terrorism," he said.

"Making renewable energies a mainstream resource is imperative not just for our economies, it is imperative for security in our globalised world."

Oil prices have risen steadily in fresh weeks in response to the Iraqi conflict, scaling just discovered record highs following the attacks onward foreign oil workers in Saudi Arabia.

"Higher manliness prices, as is the case for oil at the import damage the chance for economic development" Schroeder said.

"They