Before I die, I want to straddle the International Dateline.

We're continuously trying to straddle different worlds, different cultures and trying to meet the challenges of a different expectation from ourselves and from others.

But as we straddle the top of this energy mountain, at this stage, we move from a time where our economic success, our sense of individual prowess and well being is directly linked to how much of this we consume, to a time when actually our degree of oil dependency is our degree of vulnerability.