Claudio ZMar 10
Peter du Toit

Maybe it is time to revisit the 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use?

This could reduce global oil demand by 2.7 million barrels a day in 4 months.

Source: https://www.iea.org/reports/a-10-point-plan-to-cut-oil-use

Mar 10 at 3:57amWeb
Show threadShaun McDonaldMar 10
@peterdutoit also where possible, move to a heat pump instead of using gas, install solar panels, reduce grid demand during peak times when gas is likely to be used to cover peak demand. Gas prices are going up too alongside oil. Less fossil fuel demand means less wars.
Electricity rail lines.
Show threadswggrkllr3rdMar 10
@smsm1 @peterdutoit Industrial scale Ocean Heat Exchangers powering industrial scale turbines generating electrical power. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewzg77k721o
Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first

Water super-heated by rocks will also provide the UK's first domestic supply of the critical mineral lithium.

Show threadnojhan à la double douleur vaudoueMar 10
@peterdutoit Where’s agriculture?
Show threadMWTMar 10
@nojhan @peterdutoit under the solar panels
Show threadCyclesBecauseSummerIsComing😀Mar 10
@peterdutoit I am missing the ' build bike lanes' step. That also boosts people s personal physical and mental health at the same time as transporting them.
Show threadMWTMar 10
@CyclesSmiles @peterdutoit that would help incentivise micromobility, walking, and cycling for sure.
Show threadMagnus AhltorpMar 10

@CyclesSmiles @peterdutoit I feel that’s included in the ”cycling” step. But also indirectly in the several ”less cars” steps.

I see this as mostly a list of things that can be done very quickly, and one way of interpreting ”building bike lanes” is the multi-year process of curb and asphalt laying. But in the meantime, just blocking off a street, parts of a street or even a road is enough to get started.

Show threadĞÖKÜ👻👻™Mar 10
@peterdutoit only1 point. Just finish oil ASAP so there ll be no war for oil 🛢️.... No fuel means no vehicles means no pollution.. & no war... Start using solar panels for electricity. Build everything around solar power
Show threadtichoMar 10
@GOKUSHRM @peterdutoit That won't work. There is plenty of oil still in the ground for next I don't know how many centuries, it's just it's currently not profitable to extract it. But that will change as soon as the "easier" oil is all gone.
Show threadĞÖKÜ👻👻™Mar 10
@ticho @peterdutoit west ll burn all ground oil in no time. They all are devil.. And who knows earth ll survive or not for that long
Show threadStraw Dog in the WiresMar 10
@peterdutoit and the EU, as well as its nation states, seem to focus on the opposite
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPEMar 10
@peterdutoit WTF is the "up to three days a week" about? Why not let people continue to work from home full time? That bit was written by a commercial property company, was it?
Show threadPeter du ToitMar 10

@TimWardCam more like a senior management requirement I think.

For senior management to go from sync to full async in my experience at least is almost impossible.

Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPEMar 10
@peterdutoit Well, I've just retired in preference to returning to an office of unknown, because unmonitored, safety.
Show threadtichoMar 10
@peterdutoit You're forgetting step zero - drown leadership of oil companies in their own oil, as well as any politician that took money from them, and keep doing that until there's nobody left to drown.
Show threadnotsoloudMar 10

@peterdutoit
For those wondering: Global consumption is roughly 100 million barrela a day, so 2.7 million barrels a day is 2.7%.

I hope we'll get that down to a point where the calculation is much more difficult 😁

Show threadHow about Gloria Mundy?Mar 10
@peterdutoit Plan probably needs an update based on the use of home delivery services, at least based on the behaviour at my house.
Show threadPolly KraisusMar 10
@peterdutoit
#alt4u for the last point:
"Hasten adoption of electric and more efficient vehicles"
Show threadVick Forcella ™🌈🌳❄️☑️:verifiMar 10
@peterdutoit When less oil is being used, the prices will go down causing more people wanting to use oil.
Show threadAlan6d ago
@peterdutoit I have a small critical nit for this IEA graphic. The suggestion to work "up to" three days a week at home is confusing to interpret. Does this mean to imply that working more than three days at home be worse for energy? I wonder if it means to say "at least three days a week at home", but that is seems odd too as I suspect even one or two days of work at home is progress to reduce oil use.
Show threadAlan6d ago
@peterdutoit The other thing is the whole "cut" is a different discussion of negativity /austerity. Really this kind of effort, IMHO, should be placed in a larger campaign with a theme of "National strength through energy independence". Of which, of course, fossil fuels are generally pretty terrible for independence, but renewable energy for energy independence has been roundly ignored by centrist and right parties alike.