"The problem isn't that the petrol gas prices are so high, but gas is running out. That's the news... everybody has an individual responsibility to that, including from the president down. But in this very small quote below Mr. McKellan manages to touch on the problems of Peak Oil, alternative ideas for energy, and the destructive side of car culture:

I just put solar panels on my house in London. You wouldn't think there was enough sunshine would you? But there is enough sunshine to provide my house with electricity. I sell electricity back to the national grid that I get for free from my roof. Now shouldn't everybody be doing that? All new houses in the UK are fitted with these tiles which provide them with free electricity. Why isn't the government persuading us as individuals that we can do something? What's a matter with going on your bike? I worked along Sunset Blvd. today for lunch from one hotel to another. There were only two of us walking along the busies street in L.A. We walked faster than the cars and faster than the bus...

You meet people on the streets. Cars are dreadfull things. You get inside them and you think that that's the world. It's not the world, and you don't own that bit of space you're in. People who live in cars go and do dreadful things to other people because they stop seeing them as human beings whom they might fall in love with or greet or shake hands with.