UK: Petrol crisis

A DUNDEE environmental expert last night predicted that the present fuel crisis which has seen queues at filling stations and pumps running dry provides a gloomy taste of the future.

Philip Jenkins, natural resources management lecturer at Abertay University, said the western lifestyle was unsustainable because of excessive energy consumption.

He said there is growing evidence that if present energy consumption and climate change continue, it would represent a threat to society.