The IEA's ten steps to mitigate against the sky-rocketing price of oil

Here’s the full list of recommendations from the International Energy Agency (IEA) as to what its member countries are advised to do in order to reduce their demand on scarce and expensive oil following the impact of Trump’s presumably illegal war against Iran.

1. Work from home where possible to save petrol.
2. Reduce highway speed limits by at least 10km/h to reduce fuel usage.
3. Encourage public transport to reduce oil demand.
4. Limit car access to roads in large cities through a number-plate rotation scheme.
5. Increase car sharing.
6. Encourage efficient driving for commercial vehicles through load optimisation and vehicle maintenance.
7. Divert LPG use from transport to preserve it for essential needs like cooking.
8. Avoid air travel where possible.
9. Encourage electric cooking and other options to reduce reliance on LPG.
10. Help industrial facilities switch between different petrochemical feedstocks to free up LPG.

Basically: travel less and find alternatives to fossil fuel use. Obvious stuff, but not at all obvious to me that we’ll do it Most of those feel like good advice we should all be following anyway given the ever worsening climate disaster we’re stuck in. After all, the world’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic did slightly decrease damaging carbon emissions- but humanity soon went back to its planet-destroying ways.