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It often takes a shock to provoke substantive change. When the oil price touched $100 a barrel in January, the news could not be ignored: the days of cheap energy were over, even for the Americans. Even Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, is advising consumers to ditch petrol-guzzling cars.

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