Irina is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry. With the cost of energy soaring across Europe, governments and NGOs are looking for ways to reduce demand from consumers. The European Federation for Transport and Environment has released a report outlining how to reduce oil demand by a third, which includes a reduction in driving. While plenty of the new suggestions involve incentives, policies around car-free days, speed limits, and work-from-home days would need to be enforced. European governments have been racking their brains to come up with a realistic way of reducing energy consumption with a sharp and quite understandable focus on natural gas. But now, a group of NGOs is proposing cutting oil consumption by as much as a third. And it believes it can be done quickly. Transport & Environment, or rather, the European Federation for […]

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