Anything which increases the price of fuel can only be a good thing - and if I enjoyed the generous pension scheme the striking workers enjoy, I would certainly fight to protect it!

Hopefully the price of fuel will reach £2.50 to £3 per litre and obese mummies and daddies driving obese little Tarquin five miles to school in their obese urban four by four may think again about their modes of transport. A fuel crisis keeping private cars off the road for a few months would make cycling to work so much more pleasant.

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Hopefully the government will be brave enough to use its powers under the Civil Contingencies Act to restrict the use of private motor vehicles to journeys which it deems socially useful, and having introduced such restrictions and demonstrated that people can travel by walking, cycling and public transport - which they will when they have no choice, there will be no reason ever to relax such restrictions - the emergencies of peak oil and climate change will continue for ever.

The ability to regulate the right to travel will also be of great benefit to the police and security services in keeping us safe from crime. Much is made about the so called freedom brought about by the private motor vehicle, but the cost in terms of the environment, health crime and antisocial behaviour is always played down. All it will take is firm government.