<OT>We are going to be in trouble

[A. Khattri]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Keith Antoine wrote:

> Oil, yep its expensive, gas is about $1.65US a litre which is approx
> $6.24US gallon. So how will you and say the Brits afford central heating
> in the coming winter with the prices going up all the time.

You're assuming we also use petroleum for heating. Dont know about others
but my folks use gas central heating.

> At least we
> do not need heating at all, just air-con :)

But you're also assuming that the electricity used for the AC was not
generated from a fossil fuel-based power generation plant. One could
argue that using more electricity also contributes to increased power
generation requirements which also leads to more pollution, thus adding to
the problem.