Gordon Brown has been prompted to try and convince people he's swinging into action over high oil prices by writing an article over on The Guardian's website. His recognition that demand is going to exceed supply from now into the future is welcome but his plans are hardly reassuring. Suggesting that "getting the world to act together" is not a solution I'd like to rely on happening in the way he is implying. I wonder what will happen as more people realise we've squandered a finite resource in an unimaginably careless fashion?

Reading Brown's article in my head made me feel like I was being addressed by Charlie Brown's teacher so I produced the wordcloud shown above to summarise what he said. The bigger the word the more frequently he used it. I think his focus around bills, consumers, economy and investment says it all. There's less emphasis on the environment and renewables and no mention whatsoever of peak oil. We should all just make like the Amish.

Update: Charlie tipped my off to wordle.net which generates very pretty word clouds from any text you choose to give it. The image below links through to a larger version, again using the text of the Gordon Brown's article.