MIKE RUTHERFORD

THERE hasn't been a mere oil crisis this month.

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What we've witnessed is an oil, natural gas, humanitarian, environmental and financial catastrophe of biblical proportions.

Innocent civilians - many of them children - at the brutally bloody sharp end of the cruel, absurdly costly war in and around Iran are, of course, the people we should be most concerned about.

But from the relative safety of your car seat, armchair or aircraft pew, I'd urge you to do what I've done in recent days - take a long, hard look at the fuels we use daily, before thinking deeply about why, when, how, and at what cost, we use them.