Tim Yeo Quotes

#1. I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain to achieve a degree of energy security to reduce its total dependence on fossil fuels and to honour its commitments to cut green house gases.

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#2. People have got to get used to making low carbon choices. If they have a direct incentive to do so they will think about it. Many times a day you have a choice between a low carbon option and a high carbon option, whether it is at home or at work.

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#3. For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

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#4. Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.

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#5. It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums

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#6. The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.

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