Well, insulter-in-chief, you have a fair bit to learn about manners. Now as a matter of fact I made no comment about coal being a renewable resource or not, and you know that I know it isn't in any sense that we use the term, so enough of that rubbish if you don't mind. As for peat, for it to be regarded as a renewable resource you would have to remove it infinitesimally slowly. As I said, there's enough peat for private householders to cut turf for their own use and, responsibly done, it would have little impact on the environment. But that hasn't been what we've been doing with peat, is it? When we say that timber is a renewable resource, the caveat is that we either replace what we take and/or take it no more quickly than it grows back. We can't control the regrowth of peat (and anthropogenic climate change will actually slow its regrowth in many areas), so while it may be responsible to exploit it on a small, non-commercial scale we can't remotely regard it as a renewable resource.