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Caroline has done much to raise the issue of PO whenever she can and with what's been in the news recently she may well have the opportunity to do so this evening.

The panel includes Labour MP and chief whip Geoff Hoon, Conservative MP Eric Pickles, historian Dan Snow, and climate change denier Ruth
Lea.

peaky2 wrote:Caroline has done much to raise the issue of PO whenever she can and with what's been in the news recently she may well have the opportunity to do so this evening.

The panel includes Labour MP and chief whip Geoff Hoon, Conservative MP Eric Pickles, historian Dan Snow, and climate change denier Ruth
Lea.

Have you (or anyone) a means of reminding her?

Boris
London

I emailed her and her press officer with some useful material concerning reasons for rising prices

never know till you try etc

Boris
London

Well hopefully it will be one of the questions they debate tonight, always watch anyway, hopefully someone will mutter the words 'peak oil'.

Initiation wrote:Well hopefully it will be one of the questions they debate tonight, always watch anyway, hopefully someone will mutter the words 'peak oil'.

With output from the main suppliers falling, the term 'peak oil' is so pass?.

What are we now? Post peakers? Slippery slopers? Nice descent people?

Well said Caroline.

Shame she didn't get just a little bit longer to elaborate though.

Didn't see it. Was watching Jonathon Porritt KICK ARSE on Newsnight.

Just watching it online here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00bv4qy.shtml

Update - well worth a watch. Caroline did well. There was also an economist on who said "the age of cheap oil is over - we will have no choice but to change our lifestyle"

It was the closest Question Time has got to talking about peak oil, Caroline slightly fluffed the actual peak oil bit and I suspect anyone who didn't already know about peak oil wouldn't have understood.

The economist was very sensible on our current situation.

clv101 wrote:It was the closest Question Time has got to talking about peak oil, Caroline slightly fluffed the actual peak oil bit and I suspect anyone who didn't already know about peak oil wouldn't have understood.

The economist was very sensible on our current situation.

I agree Caroline was 90% but somehow didn't quite say it right. I'm not sure why as she's been eloquent enough on it before, but she did good and refreshing to see a question time where most of the questions were actually sensible. The last time I watched they panel spent about 20 minutes discussing whether Harry or William should have worn a Nazi armband.

lancasterlad wrote:Just watching it online here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00bv4qy.shtml

Update - well worth a watch. Caroline did well. There was also an economist on who said "the age of cheap oil is over - we will have no choice but to change our lifestyle"

I thought it was interesting that when Ruth said it, she was very calm and matter-of-fact about it, and perhaps got across better. Caroline was talking a bit too quickly in a bit of a panicky, excitable manner; Dimbleby didn't help by frequently interrupting her.

I watched this, I have to say I was suprised by the audience comments.

I was expecting more sort of petrolprices.com comments - for example " rip off Britain, oil company conspiracy blah blah blah"

But actually the comments were more along the lines of , ok the tax is high , but the frustrating thing is we have nothing to show for it.

In fact, one of the biggest rounds of applause was for Carolines comments about investing the tax revenue from petroleum (windfall tax on oil companies and fuel duty) in a decent public transport alternative.

Very surprising!

Totally_Baffled wrote:
In fact, one of the biggest rounds of applause was for Carolines comments about investing the tax revenue from petroleum (windfall tax on oil companies and fuel duty) in a decent public transport alternative.

Do those who advocate windfall taxes on companies when they do well, also advocate tax breaks when they do badly?

Keepz wrote:

Totally_Baffled wrote:
In fact, one of the biggest rounds of applause was for Carolines comments about investing the tax revenue from petroleum (windfall tax on oil companies and fuel duty) in a decent public transport alternative.

Do those who advocate windfall taxes on companies when they do well, also advocate tax breaks when they do badly?

I thought big oil did get big tax breaks....?

Isnt the NS one of the lowest tax regimes in the world.....?

Totally_Baffled wrote: I thought big oil did get big tax breaks....?

Isnt the NS one of the lowest tax regimes in the world.....?

Nope; it's one of the highest.