[ACTPO Members] Photo with CT today

[Alex Pollard]

The Canberra Times have nibbled! I'm doing a photo with them at Glenloch
interchange at 2pm. Please call me if you have input. O4O4873828

On 5 Apr 2008 04:26:49 -0000, "Alex Pollard" <alex-po at trevbus.org> wrote :

> I submitted this to the Canberra Times website just now:
> 
> PRESS RELEASE FROM ACT PEAK OIL:
> GDE AND 2020 CANBERRA SUMMIT
> 
> Speaking today at the Canberra 2020 summit, Alex Pollard, President of ACT
> Peak Oil, said "The ACT Government's decision to build the GDE with only one
> lane in each direction is to be welcomed. ACT Peak Oil recognises this
> decision as a prudent cost saving measure. The daily commute will be
> uneconomic to most Canberrans within a decade. World oil production is
> likely to peak and decline imminently. Additional expenditure on the road
> would have been a waste."
> 
> Continuing he said "In the meantime the ACT and Australian Governments
> should invest in more sustainable mass transit options for all of Canberra.
> One target developed at today's summit was to increase public transport to
> 50% of trips within Canberra by 2020."
> 
> "Particular urgency is required given that in the next few years oil
> exporting nations will increasingly retain their oil production for domestic
> use. Countries like Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Mexico will export much less."
> 
> "Developed nations should anticipate an oil export crisis in the next few
> years. This will lead to very high prices for petrol, or even fuel rationing."
> 
> 
> For more information contact
> 
> Alex Pollard
> O4O4873828
> 
> President
> ACT Peak Oil Inc.
> http://act-peakoil.org