The suggestions are typical bureaucratic response to an emerging crisis situation. Clearly, there is a need to move away from dependence on fossil fuel, and look and effectively pegging the dependence on oil to about 50% of total effective demand. The alternates that can be evaluated are: a) Development of a Hybrid engine platform for small cars, giving about 50 KMPL by 2015 b) Use of alternate Fuel such as CNG, Ethanol, etc as well encourage development of Electric cars c) Effective development of Comprehensive Public Transport systems such as Metro Rail, Mono Rail, d) Develop Transport systems and technologies to replace IC Engines by 2025 e) Cities must be re-developed to make work-home commuting and Intra-city travel 'Public-Transport' friendly. In fact, Mumbai is well suited to implement this. Unfortunately, Politicians and City developers have taken a short sighted approach. Had a Metro been planned and implemented, Mumbai would have emerged as the 'Most Public Transport' Friendly city. Hope the world works effectively to render OPEC irrelevant by 2025.
