Jam To-morrow?
‘THE coal merchant told us that he thought he might be able to let us have two bags early in September. The Auckland Electric-power Board warned us that indulgence in radiators would compel
them to "trip out the feeders " — their } picturesque technical euphemism for plunging each suburb in turn into .darkness, which painful necessity we have so far spared them by our self-denial. We wrapped rugs round our
knees to keep out the southerly that held the Gas Company’s coal shipments bar-bound on the West Coast, and sat down to digest the nourishing but cheerless Oslo breakfast of fruit, bread, cheese and milk that now takes the place of dinner. Thinking to warm our spirits with recourse to augury and soothsayirig, we tuned in to 2YA’s Winter Course talk: "Coal, the Fuel of the Future," It was cold comfort. Coal, the speaker told us, has a big future. There is little hope of a substitute being found; it will outlast petroleum. Some countries have enough for another 10,000 years. New Zealand has enough for another 60. After that it will be, perhaps, a case of put out the light. What hope, or what terror, does such a future hold for us?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 315, 6 July 1945, Page 8
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203Jam To-morrow? New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 315, 6 July 1945, Page 8
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