Who’s doomed?

Following on from your report on the Scottish economy’s “Merchants of Doom” (7 July), may I add my own comment about the longer-term doomsters who keep propagating the myth that we are “running out of oil”. Of course in the long run oil is finite, but over a 150year timeframe, not a 30-year period.

In any case, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stone. It’s because we moved on technologically. Likewise, Scotland has an unusual opportunity as a nation to invest and develop the alternatives – wind, wave, hydro and even solar – so that it remains a world class energy entity.

I am fed up with the doomsters and the cynics on Scotland’s oil, especially those who preach from within the secular pulpits of Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow. They should know better.

IAN GODDEN Chairman, Glenmore Gas Rothiemurchus by Aviemore

Inverness-shire