Oil Price Energy Panic Hits Westminster

[Amadeus]

Oil prices: Urgent steps needed to wean UK onto other energy sources, MPs say

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/mar/05/oil-uk-energy-sources?CMP=twt_fd

 

Ministers will be ordered to adopt urgent measures to wean the country off oil, amid rising concern that the Libya crisis has left the economy exposed to a dramatic rise in fuel prices.

 

With fears growing that the cost of petrol could hit £2 a litre if instability in the Middle East persists and deepens, every government department will be told this week to comply with a new national "carbon plan" aimed specifically at "getting off the oil hook".

As with all these things, it takes changed circumstances to get stuff moving. Most interestingly:

 

The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, ....., will be told he must produce a nationwide strategy to promote installation of infrastructure for electric cars by June.

 

So leccy cars it is!

[Tempus Fugit]

can you imagine if there were 100 people waiting at every bus stop on every route in the morning if everyone decided to leave the car at home ?

[gazza]

hmm if they were that worried they woud drop the fuel tax

[Republican]

The government has known of this problem for a long time. It has known that energy price spikes could cause problems for the economy, it isn't politically attractive to tell the obvious problems concerning crude oil, rather that so much is imported from other countries.

 

Whether it is domestic decline or foreign decline of oil fields albeit the problems occuring in North Africa, and the middle east is uncertain over the short term and long term.

[Terse]

 

The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, ....., will be told he must produce a nationwide strategy to promote installation of infrastructure for electric cars by June.

 

So leccy cars it is!

And the main fuel for producing electricity will be...?