ITS GOING TO GET A WHOLE LOT WORSE

I don't like what I read about Gordon Brown. Britain has exchanged one bad leader for another. However, this is a global problem and one that will never go away.

Here in Australia they have what they call "Fuel watch". This is an initiative that has been instigated by the West Australian State Government to watch fuel prices across the board and provide motorists (on line) with advices as to where they can purchase the cheapest fuel in advance. Our Prime Minister wants to introduce this scheme nationally. It won't work because it will stop independent operators who are able to undercut the price charged on a particular day by the four major oil companies.

Proposals to cut petrol taxes by 4 or 5 cents a litre are not viable because all this will do is offer minimal relief for motorists for a short time and deprive the Government of billions of dollars worth of excise revenue.

It is estimated that at current usage rates and with the probability of no new large oil fields being discovered that we will run out of oil within 30 years.

Obviously there is an urgent need to find an alternative energy source before we see the collapse of the industrialized world.

Many people have been pursuing various alternatives for some years now without providing significant answers to avoid what seems now to be unavoidable.

Planes will not fly, trucks will not deliver food, trains cannot move, cars will not run, plastic packaging cannot be made. Everything will come to a complete standstill and man will pay for his folly.

In the meantime, the only recourse our Governments can use to limit oil use is to increase the cost of this dwindling resource.

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