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Transport operators should get ready for $200 dollar a barrel oil, says Virgin exec

By Andrew Garnett
05 October 2007
Whitehorn: new technology will allow 200mpg buses by 2016
Whitehorn: new technology will allow 200mpg buses by 2016

 

TRANSPORT OPERATORS can expect to be soon paying $200 for a barrel of oil and, as a result, will have to look at using new

technology, such as carbon composites, to improve fuel efficiency of their vehicles.

That was the message of Virgin Group strategist Will Whitehorn to the assembled operators and local authority representatives at CPT Scotland’s annual conference at Gleneagles.

“We are fundamentally now in a world where oil won’t get any cheaper,” said Whitehorn...

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