In spite of what I now believe and what the industry believes - the Minister knows only too well what the industry believes - in spite of the Crisis in the Oil Industry now in this country, which is far more dangerous for the nation's future than anything that has happened in the coal industry or the electricity industry over the past two weeks, the Government have brought before us no regulations specifically relating to the conservation of oil, the better or more equal distribution of oil or the rationing of oil.

It is not the mining industry that is causing the present Crisis in the Oil Industry.