00:00Well, the government is very closely monitoring the situation with oil prices and what's happening as a result of the
00:07situation in the Gulf.
00:09But people should be reassured. The country has the usual level of stockpiles of both oil and gas that we
00:17would expect to have at this time of year.
00:20The reason the government is so focused on switching away from dependence on fossil fuels, oil and petrol, and instead
00:27moving to clean energy, wind wave, solar, nuclear, the kind of energy that we can generate here at home, is
00:33so that we are no longer subject to price fluctuations arising from crises in other parts of the world that
00:40we can't influence.
