‘Personal car use ban on Sunday… Reduce speed limit on highways… work from home more… cut air travel’ & ‘taxes’ for SUV – Watts Up With That?
IEA report excerpt ’10-point plan to cut oil use’: “Reduce the highway speed limit by about 6 miles per hour; work from home more; changing streets to encourage walking and cycling; Sundays are car-free in cities and limited on other days; cut transit fares; policies that encourage more carpooling; cut down on air travel businesses; and much more.” … “Governments have all the tools at hand to reduce oil demand in the years to come, which will support efforts to increase energy security and achieve key climate goals.” …
Restricting personal cars from using the roads in major cities to those with even number plates on some days of the week and those with odd number plates on other days of the week
Car-free Sundays in cities: Prohibition of personal car use on Sunday
SUV ‘tax’: “SUV sales also continue to grow … policies aimed at addressing the increase in sales of these vehicles – such as specific registration and road taxes – are important key.” …Prohibit the installation of new oil boilers
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Climate Depot’s Morano: “COVID 2.0 has arrived?! The International Energy Agency (IEA) 2022 report sounds like an energy version of the COVID lockdown. Instead of opening the door to America to support domestic energy production, we were asked to suffer and do with less and be regulated like the failed lockdown-style policies we endured for COVID. Curiously, COVID ‘solutions’ are also said to have helped the climate, and now similar solutions are being advertised in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As a bonus, the IEA tells us these measures will also help ‘achieve key climate goals.’ Let’s simplify this: The proposed ‘solutions’ to climate change, COVID, and now the war in Russia are identical – leaving the poor and middle class more restricted in their travel , less freedom and even more renunciation of power to the government not to elect the governing bodies.
This new IEA 2022 report comes after their 2021 report urges a form of climate containment to combat global warming. The 2021 IEA report calls for ‘change behavior “to fight the climate and” change personal car use” and “upper speed limits” and temperature control; limits on hot water and more!.“
Via: Marc Morano – Total climate inventory
March 18, 2022
Via Axios: https://www.axios.com/russia-crisis-oil-use-703bcc17-1b7c-4ede-9510-e5e8e26ea623.html
Russia crisis prompts oil use cuts
Via Ben Geman
International Energy Agency just revealed the idea to quickly cut oil demand at a time when Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine could take Russian barrels off the global market significantly..
Why is it important: The 10-point plan comes as the IEA warns that the war could become the biggest supply crisis in decades as countries seek to isolate Russia.
- It’s part of a broader calculation in Europe – Russia’s biggest market – and elsewhere about how to limit dependence on Russia while still supplying the market and avoiding potential problems. even larger economic shocks.
Enlarge: The plan says that “immediate actions” in advanced economies could reduce global oil demand by about 2.7 million bpd within four months.
These include…
- Reduce the highway speed limit by about 6 miles per hour; work from home more; changing streets to encourage walking and cycling; Sundays are car-free in cities and limited on other days; cut transit fares; policies that encourage more carpooling; cut down on air travel businesses; and more.
Big picture: Russia is the world’s largest exporter of crude oil and petroleum products and the second largest exporter of crude oil.
- The plan comes two days after the IEA predicted that Russian exports could fall by around 2.5 million bpd next month and possibly more “if restrictions or public condemnation escalate.” .”
Our thought bubble: All of this seems… can it be hard to imagine? The idea of applying coordinated mass behavior changes in a compressed timeframe sounds like a steep climb.
Plot: The report also notes that the short-term proposals should be part of broader, longer-term efforts to curb oil demand to help fight climate change and cut air pollution.
- It discusses areas such as stronger policies for electric vehicle deployment, charging infrastructure, home heat pumps, and more.
- “Governments have all the tools they need to reduce oil demand in the years to come, which will support efforts to increase energy security and achieve key climate goals.” it states.
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IEA report:
Faced with the emerging global energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the IEA’s 10-point Oil Use Cut Plan proposes 10 actions that can be taken to reduce oil demand with immediate impact. – and make recommendations on how those actions might help. paving the way to put oil demand on a more sustainable path over the long term. …
If fully implemented in advanced economies, the measures proposed by the IEA’s New Oil Use Cuts Plan would reduce oil demand by 2.7 million bpd over four months – equivalent to equivalent to the oil demand of all cars in China. This will significantly reduce potential tensions at a time when large amounts of Russian supplies may no longer reach the market and the peak demand season of July and August is approaching. The measures would have an even greater impact if applied in whole or in part in emerging economies. …
The new report also includes recommendations for decisions that governments and citizens must take now to move from the short-term emergency actions of the 10-point Plan to sustaining measures that could lead to catastrophic consequences. Countries’ oil demand is in structural decline in line with the path to net zero emissions by 2050.…
The short-term actions it proposes include reducing car oil consumption through lower speed limits, working from home, occasional limits on cars entering city centres, traffic cheaper public transport, more carpooling and other initiatives – and more use of speed rail and virtual meetings instead of air travel.
Most of the actions proposed in the 10-Point Plan would require changes in consumer behavior, supported by government measures.
The new report also includes recommendations for decisions that governments and citizens must take now to move from the short-term emergency actions of the 10-point Plan to sustaining measures that could lead to catastrophic consequences. Countries’ oil demand is in structural decline in line with the path to net zero emissions by 2050.
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The short-term actions it proposes include reducing car oil consumption through lower speed limits, working from home, occasional limits on cars entering city centres, traffic cheaper public transport, more carpooling and other initiatives – and more use of speed rail and virtual meetings instead of air travel.
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Some measures can be taken directly by other classes of government – such as state, regional or local – or just voluntarily followed by citizens and businesses, allowing them to save money. while showing solidarity with the Ukrainian people. … The IEA report notes that reducing oil use is not a temporary measure. Continual cuts are important not only to improve countries’ energy security, but also to tackle climate change and reduce air pollution. Governments have all the tools they need to reduce oil demand in the coming years, and the report outlines the key tools to achieving this goal, including accelerating electric vehicle adoption and raising standards. fuel economy standards, promote alternative fuel supplies, accelerate heat pump deployment, and produce and consume more sustainable plastics.
# Full report: https://www.iea.org/reports/a-10-point-plan-to-cut-oil-use
Replace personal cars on roads in major cities Use high-speed trains and at night instead of planes if possible Avoid air travel when alternatives are available Increase use more efficient and electric vehicles Prohibit the use of personal cars on Sundays… Restriction of personal cars from road use in major cities to people with even number plates on certain days of the week and those with odd number plates on other days of the week is a measure with a long track record of successful implementation. During the first oil shock, the Italian government replaced car-free Sundays with an even/odd number plate policy. Since the 1980s, such plans have been rolled out in many cities to tackle peak congestion and air pollution, including Athens, Madrid, Paris, Milan and Mexico City. … But governments must also consider accelerating the clean energy transition and crafting their net zero emissions strategies. To reach net zero emissions by 2050, oil demand in advanced economies by 2030 must be 15 million bpd lower than in 2021.… However, SUV sales have not stopped. increased, with almost 10% of oil use in advanced economies. Policies aimed at addressing the increase in sales of these vehicles – such as specific registration and road taxes – are key to achieving steady overall fuel economy and oil savings … Accelerating the replacement of oil boilers with heat pumps and banning the installation of new ones: Privately replacing cars on the roads in major cities
Use bullet trains and night trains instead of planes if possible
Avoid air travel when there are alternatives
Increasing adoption of more efficient and electric vehicles
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