SIR,

How many readers are aware of the views of their MP David Davies on climate change and energy resources?

In an article in the Western Mail, 20th September, available at walesonline.co.uk/go-green/go-green-climate/2011/09/20/carbon-concerns-put-wales-at-an-economic-disadvantage-claims-mp-91466-29452102/, Mr Davies suggests that to have targets to cut carbon emissions hands an advantage to Chinese manufacturing industries.

Firstly, cheap fossil fuel ended in Wales with the closure of the coal mines under the government of Mrs Thatcher.

Secondly, reserves of fossil fuels throughout the world are in decline and what remains is increasingly expensive to extract and use for electricity generation.

This means fuel prices are going to rise throughout the world.

Thirdly, those countries that take steps to reduce carbon emissions by harnessing forms of energy that do not create greenhouse gases are simultaneously helping to reduce the effects of climate change and also ensuring a future supply of electricity, even if a reduced one.

The notion that Wales is going to take on Chinese manufacturing is fanciful.

Mr Davies is pandering to the Clarkson types who like to think talk of future problems with energy and growth are the hallucinations of presumably unhinged eco-scientists.

Both the UK and Welsh governments, neither of them in the very vanguard of thinking on peak energy and climate change, take these subjects very seriously.

Mr Davies seems somewhat isolated on this topic.

Gerry Rowe

(Chepstow)