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cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 32429
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 11 10:21 am Post subject: Libyan crisis, rising oil price, and over-due realism |
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See:
https://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/mar/05/oil-uk-energy-sources?CMP=twt_iph
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John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said that despite the initiative, which was welcome, only some in government appeared to understand the need to break free from oil. "Sadly, over at transport, Philip Hammond is still confused. Cuts to public transport, coupled with his recent proposals to raise the speed limit, appear designed to reduce fuel efficiency and increase our dependence on oil. Huhne really needs to drag Hammond away from Top Gear and force him to spend some time watching the news," he said. |
Of course an entirely car-sick government like the current one will, at best, roll out ever more eletric charging points for ever more electric cars, which can only be bought by the very rich, and even then are subsidised. And the electricity will be generated primarily from gas and coal. They've been so wedded in to the goal of personal hyper-mobility, the idea that we can just keep filling tanks with petrol and just keep rolling forever, that thie fuel price problem we're now facing has come as a complete surprise to them. What have they got to answer this with? Greenwash, thus:
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The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, who has infuriated green groups by floating the idea of raising the motorway speed limit from 70mph to 80mph, will be told he must produce a nationwide strategy to promote installation of infrastructure for electric cars by June. |
Too little. Too late. |
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