I read recently that sales of electric cars in Norway had now exceeded their internal combustion equivalents. This is obviously symbolically important to people like me who support pollution control and ecological transition. I am wondering whether this symbolic moment might have further moment in accelerating the transition? Petrochemical distribution needs scale economies, with large volume, relatively low margin volumes. At what point does limitation of sales trigger accelerating diseconomies? Are we close in Norway?

What then will that approaching dynamic hold? As petrol stations start to close, will social equity and special access requirements (rural premia and the like) demand transfer payments and subsidies for the reducing number of people reliant on internal combustion transfer? If so, do you think the ground is being prepared for such seemingly anti-ecological measures?