IEA urges work-from-home to blunt oil shock amid Iran conflict
The International Energy Agency warns of looming fuel shortages amid the Iran conflict and calls for governments, businesses, and households to curb energy demand with 10 immediate actions, including working from home, reducing highway speeds, boosting public transport, alternate private-car access, car sharing, efficient driving for commercial vehicles, diverting LPG usage for essential needs, avoiding air travel, switching to electric cooking, and leveraging petrochemical feedstock flexibility; the advice is voluntary and focuses on reducing road transport, which accounts for about 45% of global oil demand, to ease price pressures and bolster energy security.
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- New IEA report highlights options to ease oil price pressures on consumers in response to Middle East supply disruptions IEA – International Energy Agency
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