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EnglishBosch on September 9, 2006 - 3:21am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
So I would urge all of you to make your local MP aware of this situation if they are not already. I will be following up to my local MP with a document containing some detailed impacts of the likely effect of Peak Oil so that this can be included in the energy review the Tories are currently undertaking.
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animal on September 11, 2006 - 2:27am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Thanks for taking the trouble to respond.
I live in Blackpool so I supsect my local MP would be more interested in continuing the yearly tradition of having hundreds of thousands of light bulbs blazing away all night, Blackpool Illuminations. Mine is one of them towns/cities that will struggle post peak, the whole local economy is based on millions people throwing their money away. should be fun
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Chris Vernon on September 11, 2006 - 4:43am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
There could be a lot more local tourism though as people stop flying to Greece/Spain etc in their millions.  Wasn't Blackpool a star attraction in the first half of the 20th century?
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animal on September 12, 2006 - 3:00am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
it was in its heyday...
in years to come who will make the decision to turn the lights out? there could be some interesting and hard decisions to be made post peak.
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EnglishBosch on September 12, 2006 - 3:37pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I would disagree about Blackpool's prognosis- at least the north-west is less heavily populated than the south-east and you wont have the drought conditions that we are experiencing in the south-east.

And with rising temperatures it could become balmy. The post-peak riots may also improve the town no-end.

On a more serious note I would still recommend to contact your MP to point out the gravity of the situation.

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