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Sweden plans to stop using oil within 15 years...
Brazil intends to power 80% of its transport using sugar cane ethanol within five years...
Iceland will be powering all its cars and boats with hydrogen created by renewable sources by 2050...
Little Britain "aims" to generate 10% of its electricity using renewables by 2012.

As ambitions go, it's pretty limited. But timid little Britain's energy policy is much worse than that. Its government is still debating whether to return to the bad old days of nuclear energy after its mad dash for gas while the rest of the world is actively investing in renewable, clean energy sources.

Wales, with the potential to be a self-sufficient energy-rich country, is tied up with this timid approach - we need to break free and start providing for our energy - and those of others - with innovative new schemes. One is the bio-mass scheme being investigated by Tower Colliery - if 400 miners at the top of end of the Valleys can develop an ambitious plan for long-term energy, why the hell can't the Assembly Government. Oh sorry, forgot it's still under the thumb of timid little Britain.