Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-05-31-Speech-3-243"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, at this late hour, I shall begin with a story about a driver who asks the price of a drop of petrol at a petrol station. On hearing that a drop of petrol costs nothing, he asks for a full tank. It is indeed the case that one can save a great deal drop by drop, perhaps even in financial terms. We certainly have before us an array of measures and proposals that could help bring about greater energy efficiency. My analogy was an attempt to illustrate that the potential solutions are all relative and clearly not simple. In my opinion, the most important is to boost science and research. I therefore believe that unless we back up our good intentions and rhetoric with adequate financial resources for research and development – and at the moment this is clearly not the case – our goal of raising energy efficiency may be no more than wishful thinking. A case in point is the Galileo project. Unless we provide this project with adequate funding, we will not achieve higher energy efficiency in future in an area such as transport, which is unquestionably one of the highest consumers of energy."@en1
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