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Our generation's dependence upon the oil-rich Middle East is one of the most contentious topics of the day. The removal of this dynamic could result in some serious geopolitical shifts.

  • Why low-carbon living should be encouraged but not imposed by Bob Geldof
  • Politics & Energy Thu, 13 Dec 2007 9:27 a.m.

  • The reason I drive a hybrid car is simple: to avoid London's congestion charge. I simply couldn't stand paying the fucking thing. It drove me nuts. The idea that I could help fight climate change didn't come into it. I've been taxed into helping. And this, of course, it what any form of taxation should do. It should lead to behavioural change.

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  • Maintaining our carbon balance with the developing world by Bob Geldof
  • Politics & Energy Thu, 13 Dec 2007 9:26 a.m.

  • Getting UK drivers to drive hybrids may help in the fight against climate change, but any efforts that a small country such as the UK makes in this area are doomed to failure if developing countries become as enthusiastic for cars as we have been over the past century.

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  • Could hybrids help reduce our thirst for oil? by Bob Geldof
  • Politics & Energy Thu, 13 Dec 2007 9:26 a.m.

  • UK politics would change significantly if hybrids were able to reduce our dependency on foreign oil and gas. Our foreign policy, in particular, would be completely different. After all, who's interested in Saudi Arabia or Libya without the oil? And would we still be so involved in Iraq? No.

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  • Where will the hybrid fleet get its energy? by Roger Kemp
  • Politics & Energy Thu, 13 Dec 2007 9:26 a.m.

  • Many of the UK’s power stations are ageing and will need to be replaced in the next 10 years. But if we set ourselves the goal of making every car on the road a hybrid, we’d have accommodate new electrical loads of 25 million large battery-chargers. This would require either three more fossil-fuel power stations like Drax in North Yorkshire; six new nuclear plants like Heysham in Lancashire; or 10,000 wind turbines.

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