Other countries however effectively act

Once the history is written, sometimes than from wonder of the unconsciousness of those of before: how they could not understand, not to act in time For oil, we will not have the excuse of ignorance: we know. The reserves are depleted. With the scarcity is high prices. Competition for control of supply, compounded by the appetite of the emerging countries, becomes a geostrategic issue which makes possible devastating energy wars. Greenhouse gas emissions directly threaten the survival of humanity. Depletion of the resource, energy independence, disaster climate, health and social security of the world: the preparation of the prospects is a political emergency.

Out of the civilization of the oil, to a paradigm shift to environmental excellence and the energy justice of the réorganisateurs principles of public action. Question of courage and political will. Half measures of the "environmental pact" announced by the Government provide no real reduction in oil consumption. Nothing on the rail and the piggyback. Ecological tax incentive is no. No development contribution of the oil companies. Too many gaps, inconsistencies and conservatism to really engage the France in a new energy scenario. "Small, said Stuart Mill, do not even produce small effects, they produce no effect."

Other countries, however, effectively act. The Sweden took the time to a diagnosis shared with industry, researchers, officials, citizens. She made the choice of democratic transparency, public debate and political voluntarism. By 2020, it will be totally discharged oil and renewable energies already represent 35 of national consumption. The Sweden is one of the two European countries about to achieve the CO2 emission reductions set by the Kyoto Protocol. The France may do so provided they want.

In Poitou-Charentes, we decided to respect the Kyoto objectives by reducing our CO2 emissions by 800,000 tonnes by 2010. We address not the prospects as a constraint, but as an opportunity for innovation. We make environmental excellence a transversal concern which irrigates all our sectoral policies and that we spend more than a third of the regional budget. Together, we enable all keys on a keyboard where avoided consumption are as important as the diversification of renewable energy. We prefer a participatory approach that promotes the mobilization of all public and private actors. Transportation (44 of the regional greenhouse gas emissions), we give priority to rail, to the modernization of infrastructure and the Park, to the development of an accessible offer which includes one day per month, B to 1 euro. The attendance of regional trains increased by 28 in two years and we have just signed a protocol for testing of a biodiesel with the SNCF. In habitat, we are helping financially the reduction of consumption and the use of renewable energy, boilers wood to the solar, photovoltaic generators to energy-saving wooden constructions. In high schools, all maintenance and rehabilitation operations integrate these objectives and promote the use of biomass, solar and wind power, energy for vegetable oils in place of the fuel. We are building a high school "zero fossil" and we are introducing an energetically autonomous building on the site of the University of Poitiers.

In this general mobilization at the regional level, everything takes place. This is why we are also environmental excellence is integrated into the initial training and continuous, become a dimension of our economic development and the competitiveness of our enterprises, contributes to the creation of jobs for the future. We financially support research and innovation, the development of the Green and écoprocédés, the production and consumption, agrofuels and agrocombustibles. We do the public command this global energy combat tool.

The France could, if his Government is committed without reservation, accelerate the transition to the prospects. Exemplary in her home, she would be more credible outside its borders. It could push Europe to make the energy question one of the engines of his political revival and his reunion with the citizens. And build a co-development that takes advantage of non-fossil energy they have in abundance with the countries of the South.

In the field of energy, the laissez-faire neglect works even less than elsewhere. Suspected of impotence in the face the world disorders, political action must demonstrate his ability to lead, in the interest of all and involving the French, a successful energy transfer. Overcome selfishness and competing interests which retard our emancipation of the oil constraint, to clarify the choice, to appeal to the collective intelligence of our fellow citizens and, once the cap is set, assume, at the Summit of the State, a firm steering. This is also the issue of 2007.