Letter: Cure for car addicts
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: James Cadle's greenhouse effect figures (Letters, 22 November) are misleading: transport accounts in the UK for 22 per cent, and world- wide for 28 per cent, of CO2 emission (OECD, 1993).
Even more serious is the unconscionable waste of fossil fuel. Evidence shows a permanent decline in global oil production within the next 20 years (Nature, Vol 387). Continuing car use increase world-wide will increase the discrepancy between demand and supply, with the certain outcome of wars for oil. One oil war, however disguised, has happened already, in the Gulf in 1991.
Professor G V R BORN
London EC1
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