Bristol worried about ‘peak oil’

Bristol City Council is devising a plan to respond to the possibility of steeply rising oil prices. There is a “growing consensus that the era of cheap oil is over, and that an oil crunch in the next decade is likely,” says a new report commissioned by the council and the Green Capital Momentum Group of the Bristol Partnership. “Peak oil [the term for when global oil production peaks] fundamentally alters the viability of the private car as the leading mode of...

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