Yup, your having one of those days... ;o)

On the brighter side we will may new Gas pipelines from Norway and Russia, a major expansion of LNG (although noted we will be competing for this resource with every other rich Nation not on the end of a local gas pipe).

Our new nukes won't come onstream till late/early 20s -most likely scenario is that the existing capacity will be eaked out till the very last second- by which time uncertain Gas and YellowCake at $1000/pound will have quadrupeled the electricity price (if anyone has some projections on this I would be interested in seeing them).

There will be windmills everywhere and a fair amount of solar heaters and solar PV on everyones house by then too which should take some of the strain off the grid. Bush is giving $1000 dollar checks out at the mo -how much NanaSolar type PV will that buy in 10 years?

Oil at $200/barrel would be ~£1.60/litre here in the UK -tough but its now £1.05 so it is at least thinkable...

Nick.