British Paper Calls To Ban All Driving On Sundays Lowering Speed Limits To Reduce Oil Usage

U.K. Is Considering Stripping Personal Car Ownership To Meet Pollution Goals

The WinePress reported in March that the International Energy Agency (IEA) had advocated for those same things, and much more, in order to tackle the energy crunch caused by the restrictions per the Russia-Ukraine proxy war.

The IEA’s plans are perfectly aligned with the World Economic Forum’s same visions, as documented in that report, and more: “International Energy Agency Calls For ‘Car-Free Sundays’ And Other Ways To Reduce Oil Use“

Those plans include (with the WEF’s goals italicized):

1. Reduce speed limits on highways by at least 10 km/h (290 kb/d of oil from cars and 140 kb/d from trucks – Has the speed limit been reduced in your city? Here’s why
2. Work from home up to three days a week where possible (One day a week saves around 170 kb/d; three days saves around 500 kb/d) – 5 research-backed reasons working from home will stick; Could ‘hybrid working’ usher in a golden age for workers?
3. Car-free Sundays in cities (Every Sunday saves around 380 kb/d; one Sunday a month saves 95 kb/d) – Car-free day – and the other 364 days of the year; This is what happens when cities ban cars from the roads
4. Make the use of public transport cheaper and incentivize micromobility, walking and cycling (330 kb/d) – Why your next car is a bike
5. Alternate private car access to roads in large cities (210 kb/d) –Uber CEO Travis Kalanick: soon, nobody will own a car; Goodbye car ownership, hello clean air: welcome to the future of transport
6. Increase car sharing and adopt practices to reduce fuel use (470 kb/d) – What is the future of car sharing?; What’s the best way to reduce fuel consumption?
7. Promote efficient driving for freight trucks and delivery of goods (320 kb/d) – Road Freight Zero: Pathways to faster adoption of zero-emission trucks; Delivering the Goods: E‑commerce Logistics Transformation
8. Using high-speed and night trains instead of planes where possible (40 kb/d) – Fall asleep in Vienna, wake up in Paris – Europe’s night trains make a comeback
9. Avoid business air travel where alternative options exist (260 kb/d) – How to reduce your carbon footprint as a travelling professional?
10. Reinforce the adoption of electric and more efficient vehicles (100 kb/d) – This is how electric cars will transform our lives

The British paper has acknowledged those same goals and are now advocating for the same thing.

The outlet wrote:

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Putting a ban on Sunday driving and lowering the speed limit on motorways by more than five miles per hour are suggestions that have been put forward as ways Britain could reduce its reliance on oil.

The proposals are part of a 10-point plan by International Energy Agency to lessen global demand by 2.7 million barrels a day. In turn this could help to control stock levels and prices. The ideas come amid soaring prices and supply challenges driven by the war in Ukraine and cost of living crisis.

The plan includes enforcing a ban on driving cars in cities every Sunday, cutting speed limits on motorways by 6mph to 64mph, working from home three days a week and making use of high-speed night trains instead of planes where possible.

Other suggestions put forward by the IEA are:

• Reinforce the adoption of electric and more efficient vehicles
• Avoid business air travel where alternative options exist
• Promote efficient driving for freight trucks and delivery of goods
• Increase car sharing practices to reduce fuel use
• Alternative private car access to roads in large cities
• Make public transport cheaper

As a result of Russia’s appalling aggression against Ukraine, the world may well be facing its biggest oil supply shock in decades, with huge implications for our economies and societies.

IEA Member Countries have already stepped in to support the global economy with an initial release of millions of barrels of emergency oil stocks, but we can also take action on demand to avoid the risk of a crippling oil crunch. Our 10-Point Plan shows this can be done through measures that have already been tested and proven in multiple countries.

Said IEA executive director Fatih Birol

Last month, drivers were hit by a new record as petrol prices rose every day, with the average cost of a litre of fuel jumping by 16.6p from 174.8p to a whopping 191.4p – the highest monthly increase in records dating back to 2000.

RAC fuel spokesman, Simon Williams, said:

The window for pump prices to come down appears to have been well and truly closed, with both oil prices and therefore wholesale fuel costs once again rising after last week’s big drop, putting yet more pressure on households and businesses. In just the last week, the average cost of a litre of petrol has gone up 3.5p and diesel by a staggering 5.5p.

Filling up a 55-litre family car now costs £91.86 for petrol and £98.43 for diesel. Drivers faced with spiralling costs when they fill up will undoubtedly be looking to the Chancellor to act in Wednesday’s Spring Statement, so suggestions fuel duty may be cut from its current level of 57.95p in every litre of fuel sold will be widely welcomed.

While there has been talk of a 5p cut in fuel duty, this may not be deep enough to make a real difference to drivers who are facing the highest ever costs to fill their tanks. However, ensuring all drivers fairly and fully benefit from the fuel duty cut depends entirely on retailers reducing their prices and not using it as an opportunity to take a greater profit on every litre they sell. On the other hand, reducing VAT, which is a tax on a tax, prevents this from happening and would guarantee drivers benefit fully.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[29] A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good. [30] He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

Proverbs 16:29-30

As insane as all this is, I figure at some point the governments around the world are going to try even harder to enact some of these “suggestions.” It of course has zero to do with climate, but total control and subjugation.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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