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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Matthew Taylor

Ban private jets and cut speed limits to avert UK fuel crisis, say campaigners

Smart motorway showing 60mph speed limit
The campaigners want the speed limit on UK motorways reduced to 60mph. Photograph: Dawson Images/Alamy

Private jets should be banned and the speed limit on UK motorways reduced to 60mph as part of a pre-emptive effort to ease the looming fuel supply crisis, according to leading climate and transport organisations.

The group – including Greenpeace and Transport and Environment – are calling on ministers not to “sleepwalk into a crisis” that could lead to severe shortages of jet fuel and spiralling petrol prices at the pump in the coming months.

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