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Energy in Demand - Sustainable Energy - Rod Janssen 
A very good (& timely) article:
“People trust SUVs because advertisers have done a good job of convincing people it’s a good option, so we need the effort on the other side.”
Thus we see that part of the problem is advertising, be it for bottled water or 4x4s/SUVs/take your pick. The answer, as with cigarettes, is the elimination of advertising for such items. There are, almost, no ads for fags, and consumption has gone down, dramatically. The same needs to be done with bottled water, fizzy drinks in general, SUVs etc etc. Advertisers have created demand for these stupid and destructive products, this needs to stop. It is time that advertisers turned their attention to the climate disaster and changing people’s minds with respect to action. If they can do it for a stupidity, SUVs, they can do it for something else.
I fully agree. You are absolutely right about the interconnector and there should have been some good advice from the European Commission to steer them in a more sustainable direction. Sadly, I’m not surprised by the conventional thinking. This has to end everywhere. Thanks Mike