Huge muttered:

On 2006-11-01, magwitch wrote:
The Natural Philosopher muttered:

Legislation is
oppressive, and taxation will only ultimately work if its *directly*
coupled to fossil energy usage, and the gratuitous consumption of raw
materials in short supply.

One of the experts on Radio 4 yesterday said that the change required was
similar to that in WW2, i.e. massive.

A poster on the BBC HYS forum had quite an interesting idea in that every
driver would be rationed with a fuel allowance, say 500 litres of fuel per
month, if a driver stuck to his allowance, fine. If he exceeded it, he'd
have to buy his extra ration from people who'd not used up theirs.

The problem with this idea is that Public Transport in London at rush hour
is full up. There is simply no more room for any more passengers.

There would be if a legal entitlement to home-working was introduced as part
of the employer/employee contract, 2 days a week, people worked from home,
unless their job couldn't be done from there, I'd say that would cut
peak-time commuter numbers by a quarter.