Tuesday, October 23, 2007

It's rip-off Britain, even when it comes to climate change | Climate Change | Guardian Unlimited

It's rip-off Britain, even when it comes to climate change | Climate Change | Guardian Unlimited

The challenge for the UK is that as gas prices and oil prices have risen, there is more incentive to use coal as a fuel source. So emissions have risen because coal is cheaper, even when companies have bought emissions rights. Its one of the paradoxes of climate change that expensive oil could increase overall emissions as suppliers switch to coal.

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