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.

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