[clv101]

In an attempt to engage with the electorate, last year the UK Government launched an e-petitions service on their website. One petition focused on peak oil, it read:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')e the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to acknowledge that global oil and gas supplies are peaking and will soon decline; a situation requiring immediate action.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')owever, on the balance of the available analysis and evidence, the Government's assessment is that the world's oil and gas resources are sufficient to sustain economic growth for the foreseeable future.

[Twilight]

Shit, it's not the rocks after all. It's just a question of investment and making sure our policies are understood. Anyone else still think these clowns are peak oil aware?

[malcomatic_51]

clv101, I doubt that any government is going to explicitly acknowledge that we are at the peak. Governments just don't do that, especially if they have a banking industry that would disappear in a financial panic. They are saying they know we have to move away from fossil fuels. It's all "Sir Humphrey" language:

"No HM government does not believe PO is happening now, nor is it expected in the foreseeable future; yes we are going to promote efficiency and move the economy away from fossil fuels (at least provided we don't upset any drivers doing it)."

In practice they won't do very much that is actually very useful, but they will do things that are visible and "feelgood" without inconveniencing anyone very much. A bit like the way they deal with road "safety" (ie, they serve the heavy lorries and the boorish drivers who are the cause of most danger, and get tough on pedestrians and cyclists instead).

After seeing Northern Rock, I am pretty sure that they will do nothing until it is too late to do anything very much (it may already be that late).

[CarnbY]

It's pretty horrifying really, they're just gonna run this bitch right into the ground!

[Ayame]

Hahaha what a whitewash!

What faith they have in technology and the market.

[americandream]

In all honesty what can the government do...can you see the bedlam there would be were any government to ration the confectionary...look at Burma and the Monks! If resource deprivation can get buddhists into a lather, what hope does your average drone have.

[KrellEnergySource]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'I')n all honesty what can the government do...

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KrellEnergySource', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'I')n all honesty what can the government do...

[SILENTTODD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('clv101', 'A')s the International Energy Agency (IEA) notes in its 2005 publication, Resources to Reserves - Oil and Gas Technologies for the Energy Markets of the Future, the key problem is not the limit of geological oil resources:

[Battle_Scarred_Galactico]

The hydrocarbon resources around the world are sufficiently abundant to sustain likely growth in the global energy system for the foreseeable future". Rather, the challenge lies in bringing these resources to market in a way that ensures sustainable, timely, reliable, and affordable supplies of energy.


This is the telling part, they sold ours off (read: wasted it) now they want others to do the same to save their bacon.

Typical 'Globalization' response from a bunch of morons.

[whereagles]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Twilight', 'S')hit, it's not the rocks after all. It's just a question of investment and making sure our policies are understood. Anyone else still think these clowns are peak oil aware?

[sjn]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('whereagles', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Twilight', 'S')hit, it's not the rocks after all. It's just a question of investment and making sure our policies are understood. Anyone else still think these clowns are peak oil aware?

[TheDude]

The US congress has a peak oil caucus. You'd figure they'd go to them for some guidance, rather than following the IEA around blindly. Don't know how much further you'll get without empty pumps.

[Twilight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sjn', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('whereagles', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Twilight', 'S')hit, it's not the rocks after all. It's just a question of investment and making sure our policies are understood. Anyone else still think these clowns are peak oil aware?

[like_the_dinosaurs]

I suppose it's to be expected. How long has it taken them to announce publicly that global warming is real and requires action.

Just the announcement not the action mind you.

PO will most likely follow the same path, except this time the time-frame is 5 years not 50.

Really sad to see.

[mididoctors]

gordon brown's response back in his chancellor days was "I'm on the phone to OPEC"

unfortunately twilight's take is pretty much on the mark.

Boris
London

[dukey]

government response is WAR

mass death and killing to get the black stuff ;p

[energyZ]

Should the UK consider a new generation of reactors as alternative energy sources?

[Sideous]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('energyZ', 'S')hould the UK consider a new generation of reactors as alternative energy sources?