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Green groups are repeating mistaken claims of 1970s oil crisis says RAC

23 October 2009
Glaister: 1970s predictions were ‘wrong’
Glaister: 1970s predictions were ‘wrong’

 

People who say that dramatic changes to personal travel patterns are needed to combat the threat of global warming are repeating the  mistake made by many opinion-formers in the 1970s oil crisis, according to a new report published by the RAC Foundation.

The RAC Foundation commissioned infrastructure economist David Parish to review the transport policy repercussions of the 1973-1975 energy crisis sparked by the Israel-Arab war. Parish outlines how the war prompted a massive rise in oil...

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