In mitigation, he said Ashcroft, whose parents died when he was young, targeted premises where there were smoke detectors and sprinklers, and did not use petrol.
The selling point of the E-rev is that is cuts out "range anxiety" because if the electric charge in the battery runs low the car can use petrol to generate more.
Urban car use creates more congestion than rural car use, but petrol taxes do not distinguish between the two.
Civil servants in the Philippines have been put on a four-day working week, to save the petrol they use while commuting and the power they consume in their offices.
One reason is that with higher oil prices, the petroleum derivatives that Ecuador imports to make petrol for domestic use are now costlier too.
"His complacent attitude will dismay families across Scotland who are day and daily struggling to reconcile their need to use a car with spiralling petrol prices, " he added.
Given these social costs, it seems reasonable to tax petrol to discourage its use.
This will use a hydrocarbon fuel (think exotic petrol) rather than hydrogen.
Even so, says Neville Jackson of Ricardo, there remains much scope for improvement: petrol and diesel cars still typically use less than a fifth of the energy stored in their fuel to turn the wheels.
The crime waves that afflicted many parts of the world and then, against all predictions, collapsed, were ascribed, in an article published by Mother Jones last week, to the rise and fall in the use of lead-based paint and leaded petrol.
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In addition, the prices of petrol and diesel, which many people use to heat their houses, have shot up.
They may use that wiggle room to raise the cost of petrol, frozen for the past six years despite big rises in the world price of oil.
Now, though, the public panels have concluded that it makes more financial sense to use a second-hand hatch-back (1.6l petrol Ford Focus to be precise) - buying one that's five years old and selling at 10.
He also pointed out that Nigeria does not have many commuter railways, so people have little choice but to use motorcycle and minibus taxis, whose prices are closely linked to the price of petrol.
With petrol costing half the price paid in Japan and Europe, they will doubtless continue to use their cars for two-to-three-hour journeys and fly for anything longer.
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