I also think he is a well informed person on energy matters and understands certain problems like the pointless dash for agro-fuels. This makes his hesitation in putting forward a proper policy even more awkward. Vencit omnia veritas.
We elect these people to do the best for us in the long term, there are situations that require national and trans-national responses and playing 3 wise monkeys and fiddling while Rome burns don't constitute effective policy making.
Like all the neocons in the US who were wrong about everything, they should resign from being invovled in the prediction/decision making game and let in those who were right all along. keep to the Fen Causeway