The Green Files > Peak oil - Mar 4

EnergyBulletin.net Peak Oilhttp://www.energybulletin.net/41208.html [EnergyBulletin.net Peak Oil] Mr Livingston was speaking at the Ecobuild trade fair in London’s Earls Court on Thursday, during an environmental hustings featuring the three main candidates in the election for London mayor, to be held on 1st May. In answer to a question from Global Public Media's David Strahan about what the candidates would do to protect London from peak oil, Mr Livingstone said “I don’t see this as a threat, I see it as an opportunity… it may be the only way that we face up to having to reduce our energy consumption”.

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