[PaulV .... I agree with a lot of what you say .... however not point 1


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The idea that the sort of energy useage from petroleum (grey line) could be accommodated by 'winding back' the slight recent decine in electricty consumption (orange line) seems optimistic ...... replacing fossil fuels for transport would wipe out our current total electricity generating capacity from all sources more than twice over .... and our electricity is already fully utilised running stuff like industry, hospitals and people's homes, so the required increase in capacity in the short (in the context of major infrastructure projects) timescales seems somewhat challenging scared

Add to that the stated phasing out of natural gas, meaning all that current gas energy useage has to be replaced at the same time, and the energy supply issue looks worryingly difficult

K