Pat Kenny
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So he was tending to them for a few days, I presume.
Yeah, and even if you get half of that generated by renewables, the other half is still using fossil fuels.
But what I really liked about this is that was 15 minutes into the opening episode.
So there is no long setting up all this.
The other half is still using fossil fuels.
So we have a massive dependency on fossil fuels.
It begins very dramatically with two pretty horrific deaths.
Even looking forward and looking at our commitments, we're not going to hit those targets, are we?
One in Oxford or Cambridge, I think it is actually, and one on the mean streets of
If you can imagine everyone... Like a ghost ship.
at that time, of Liverpool.
And you see that this heroin epidemic was starting to make headlines in the tabloids and we're led to believe that Thatcher at the time read the tabloids every morning.
So somebody who got off the cruise ship at one of the earlier ports of call got on the plane.
And when this occurred a few times, she suddenly wanted... She was also in trouble for her economic policies.
And if you expected the crew to be gaunt and starving, that was not the case.
There are a few, I suppose, salutary lessons we can learn.
They were sitting beside passengers being tended to by air stewards and so on.
You will remember, as I do, the oil crisis of the 1970s, and you had queues outside garages, you had garages saying, regulars only, limited the amount, you know, you could have two gallons of fuel or whatever it was to get you by.