THE centre page spread of Business Press, (November 24), extolled the virtues of a company that insisted they be employed to light up buildings or even whole cities. Then on page ten there was a small report about conserving energy.

The importance of these two items should have been reversed. Fossil fuels are finite and nobody denies that the time is rapidly approaching when they will be exhausted. Unless some other source of energy is harnessed we could soon find ourselves relying more and more on nuclear fuel with the obvious disposal problems of the lethal waste.

We must take stock of our natural resources and give more thought to how we can conserve them, rather than how much more quickly we can use them up.

Keith Smith,

Dikelands Lane,

Upper Poppleton,

York

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