X-Message-Number: 25887
From: "Mark Plus" <>
Subject: The IEA's short-term plan
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:26:08 -0800

You can read the International Energy Agency's actual proposal. Apparently 
it doesn't mention jet fuel, but no doubt air travel will have to be 
severely restricted during the coming oil shortage emergencies :

Saving Oil in a Hurry:
Measures for Rapid Demand Restraint in Transport
http://www.iea.org/textbase/work/2005/oil_demand/background.pdf

Also refer to,

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/655B03B0-32C2-4BF7-A3E8-F7EFD8144333.htm

Energy body wants brakes on fuel consumption
By Adam Porter in Perpignan, France

Thursday 24 March 2005, 18:09 Makka Time, 15:09 GMT

The International Energy Agency is to propose drastic cutbacks in car use to 
halt continuing oil-supply problems. Those cutbacks include anything from 
car-pooling to outright police-enforced driving bans for citizens.

Fuel "emergency supply disruptions and price shocks" - in other words, 
shortages - could be met by governments. Not only can governments save fuel 
by implementing some of the measures suggested, but in doing so they can 
also shortcut market economics.

An advance briefing of the report, titled Saving Oil in a Hurry: Measures 
for Rapid Demand Restraint in Transport, states this succinctly.

"Why should governments intervene to cut oil demand during a supply 
disruption or price surge? One obvious reason is to conserve fuel that might 
be in short supply.

"But perhaps more importantly, a rapid demand response (especially if 
coordinated across IEA countries) can send a strong market signal."

The report goes on to suggest a whole series of measures that could be used 
to cut back on fuel consumption. They are cutting public-transport costs by 
a certain amount to increase its usage while simultaneously dissuading car 
use.

Sweeping proposals

Then more radically the idea of going further and cutting public-transport 
costs by 100%, making them free to use. Car-pooling, telecommuting and even 
corrections to tyre pressures are also suggested.

But the most hardline emergency proposals come in the form of drastic speed 
restrictions and compulsory driving bans. Bans could be one day in every 10 
(10%) or more stringently on cars with odd or even number plates. They would 
be banned from the roads on corresponding odd or even days of the month 
(50%).
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Manage your risk, not your terror.
Mark Plus

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