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I think for a solution, it breaks into two areas really. Both assume that the high prices are here to stay.
1. Seriously change our behaviour. For most, this lacks practicality, but there are opputunities to used the car less.
2. Government could think properly about affordable, joined up public transport. The challenge is that the infrastructure is not there, or the politcal will, however the time scales quoted could be shortened if desired. And big improvements could be made early.
The difficulty is, if we did move from the car to the train, for example, the government would have no choice but to tax something to get money from us!
There does need to be some high level debate, and I would love to join in, and be positive and proactive, because there are solutions. My main frustration, apart from the actual fuel bills, is the lack of high level honesty about what is really happening.
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