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Good work James for your part in setting this up. There are some massive challenges to bring around UK parliamentary thinking. Powerful figures in all the major parties seem opposed to peak oil.
Vince Cable of the Liberal Democrats and former chief economist of BP has written articles decrying peak oil theory with traditional economists faith that more money will bring forth all the oil we need.
Lord Lamont still has great influence in Tory circles and his recent remarks about how it is unjustified to place an economic burden on this generation to prevent climatic change in 100 years time because people then will be so much richer than we are now places him firmly in the cornucopian corner and one can fairly predict he will dismiss peak oil if indeed he has heard of it. I am sure there are many more in his party who share his mindset and I am not sure how far Tory Leader David Cameron's green policies extend beyond the decorative
I do not know if our new Prime Minister, Gorden Brown has heard of peak oil but his statements that it is OPEC's duty to produce half a million more barrels a day of oil do not give great hopes.
Even so, the group is a great advance from what we had before where a lecture on peak oil at Westminster by Colin Campbell drew only a handful of Members of Parliament.
Good news to see the issue taken more notice of, the UK is unique being fairly small with huge potential for renewable energy, an experienced nuclear sector, and at one time a decent railway network. Possible problem of having lots of people without masses of growing land, but I am hopeful we can make big changes towards the future as long as we get started soon as possible.