Fill up, drive and be speedy, for tomorrow ... we run out of oil

‘Let us fill up, drive and be speedy, for tomorrow ... we run out of oil.’ Tomorrow belongs to the children who today are ferried to and from school in 4x4s.

Yesterday nobody wanted to believe the Club of Rome’s warnings in ‘The Limits to Growth’ published in 1972. Even today Exxon funds pseudo-scientific research to dissuade the White House from curbing their profits tomorrow, while today those profits multiply as demand outstrips supply so that oil prices keep setting new records.
‘Gas guzzlers damage our children’s future’ could be included by law in the paintwork of all new vehicles doing less than 25 mpg. Another remedy is in our own right feet.

50 mph is the Environmental Transport Association’s Green Speed limit. That may be unrealistic and cause dangerous impatience.

Many cars now have a trip computer - even an under-rated four-year-old Skoda Fabia. The challenge is to aim at an average 50 mpg on every trip.

How many Christians will try to join an ‘Over-50 mpg Club’? Presumably not those who believe their vocation is to accelerate the end of the world.