Rising fuel prices are a signal to reduce travel – drive less often, over shorter distances and do so more efficiently. It is a message any responsible government should be repeating as part of its commitment to reduce greenhouse emissions and should be promoting opportunities to make this transition as easy as possible for all travellers.
The message from the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in November 2020, a bit more than a year ago was absolutely clear – if humanity is to have a future on this planet it must reduce emissions quickly starting now. It is difficult to think of an issue of greater priority.