I write in response to the article about the price of petrol and the comments by Dr Alister Scott, a research fellow at the science policy research unit at the University of Sussex (The Argus, September 9).

Our dwindling natural energy resources are a cause for concern, especially natural gas, which we are now importing.

As for petrol and our love affair with the car (long may it reign), running them on sugar or LPG gas is another drain on natural resources. As Dr Scott said: "There is no panacea."

As yet, the world has not come up with a energy solution which is accpetable on all counts.

In my opinion, we will eventually have to accept, with all its drawbacks, nuclear energy as the primary source of electricity.

As we already have nuclear-powered submarines, I feel confident scientists will eventually produce a nuclear energy pod for cars, even if it means the end of the 150mph petrol-driven type cars currently on our congested roads.

One of nuclear energy's benefits would include the reduced status of the world's mega-rich oil barons, who hold us to ransom.

Another resource, water - or rather the lack of it - is also of great concern.

We should take a lesson from the electrical engineers of long ago, who introduced the National Grid, the high-tension cables which link our towns and ensure a continuous supply.

Couldn't there be a system of pipes to link our reservoirs and which would enable surplus water to be pumped from areas, such as the North and Scotland, to the South and elsewhere?

It would be a financial headache but it would be a better option than costly seawater desalination.

-S Lipman, Hove