Responding to reports of a potential jump in US petrol prices to $5 per gallon John Hemming MP, who campaigns to highlight constraints on fossil fuel supplies, said
September 25, 2005 4:14 PM
"You might wonder if the Rolling Stones were predicting the events of Autumn/Winter 2005 in their song 'jumping jack flash'. The hurricanes of Katrina and Rita are causing price jumps in prices of crude oil on the back of shortage of refinery capacity and the impact on the oil rigs in the mexican gulf. The urgent issue, however, for the UK is gas. Clearly the Rolling Stones did not aim to predict this in their 1968 song, but it is possible to read this in the lyrics."
"I do welcome Michael Ancram's recognition that Energy is the big issue of the future."
He was commenting after Michael Ancram said "It is astonishing that the Conservative leadership campaign has proceeded so far without any real mention of what is almost certainly the greatest crisis facing our citizens in the next generation."
ENDS
Notes for Editors
Lyrics of "Jumping Jack Flash"
I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
And I howled at my ma in the driving rain,
But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas!
But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash,
It's a Gas! Gas! Gas!
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