Well, it sounds as though he's getting more sensible and practical which is good news.

But Luís, I would not be so sure about your comment:

Energy Efficiency is popular. It is hard for anyone to be against it, the dependence on foreign sources diminishes as so the bills by the end of the month.

If that were the case the UK government would stop roadbuilding plans and be re-nationalising and expanding the rail network. If that were the case the UK government would be following many of the excellent and numerous examples in Germany, Sweden, Holland and so on regarding feed-in tariffs, local CHP, insulation and conservation grants on a realistic scale. But we have none of these things - what we have is a proposed new centralised inefficient coal-fired power station, an expansion of inefficient centralised nuclear power, Terminal 5 and the proposed Heathrow airport expansion. All of these are looking toward wasting, expanding or maintaining our energy supply from non-renewable sources and bumping up our CO2 emissions into the bargain.

Any centralised, big-energy source will create relatively few jobs compared to small scale and more resilient local power generation and local building insulation and refurbishment work aimed at energy efficiency and demand reduction. That small and obvious point doesn't seem to have made it into the heads of the Powers That Be either!

Maybe the Gordon Brown Party ought to start reading the same material that is now informing Mr Piebalgs' thinking and then putting it into practice. We can but hope.