X-Message-Number: 26484 From: "Mark Plus" <> Subject: UK energy rationing and cryonicists' mobility Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 07:54:53 -0700 The British Government rationalizes this scheme in terms of controlling environmental damage, but I suspect it really derives from a desire to manage the crash in the UK's local oil supplies. BP's own statistics show a 10% decline in UK oil extraction in one year, from 2003 to 2004. Eventually Britons won't have the freedom to fly wherever they want because they lack enough fuel ration points. I told you something like this would happen. Manage your risk, not your terror. Mark Plus http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/02/nrg02.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/07/02/ixportaltop.html or, http://tinyurl.com/7ngsa Energy ration cards for everyone planned By Charles Clover, Environment Editor (Filed: 02/07/2005) Every individual in Britain could be issued with a "personal carbon allowance" - a form of energy rationing - within a decade, under proposals being considered seriously by the Government. Ministers say that increasingly clear evidence that climate change is happening more quickly than expected has made it necessary to "think the unthinkable". They believe they need to start a public debate on energy rationing now if Tony Blair's aspiration of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by two thirds by 2050 is to be achieved. Under the scheme for "domestic tradeable quotas" (DTQs), or personal carbon allowances, presented to the Treasury this week, everyone - from the Queen to the poorest people living on state benefits - would have the same annual carbon allocation. This would be contained electronically on a "ration card", which could be the proposed ID card or a "carbon card" based on supermarket loyalty cards. It would have to be handed over every time a form of non-renewable energy was purchased - at the filling station, or **when buying tickets for a flight** [Mark's emphasis] - for points to be deducted. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26484