Denmark’s energy minister called on citizens to reduce their energy use amid the ongoing Middle East conflict.
Oil prices jumped to over $100 a barrel on Thursday, raising fears of rising inflation.
“If it is not strictly necessary to drive the car, then don’t do it,” the minister stressed to Danish citizens.
Maybe one day we’ll figure out how to reduce our dependency on foreign oil, and increase economic stability by transitioning to electric vehicles…
Why not transition to using public transport AS much AS possible instead? Most people literally do not need their own car, if we would have a good public transport system.
I specified “electric vehicles”, of all types. Could be electric cars, buses, trams, ebikes or whatever.
if we have to still use oil, i dont see why not focus on buying from norway? dont they still have oil too? or is it just too little?
Because international commodities don’t work that way. They’re priced according to supply and demand, with cost of production and transportation as a limiter on supply. The supply of middle eastern oil has been drastically reduced to Europe, which means there’s more demand for the oil you do have, one major supplier being Norway.
Ramping up production in response to high prices is slow, expensive, and risky. They’ll likely slowly increase production if the state of affairs continues for a long time, but it’ll be like the situation when sanctions on Russia began
ffs, reason why everything will collapse in western countries with ww3 will be because of complete lack and care of planning for future and because everything has been made so brittle, not because everything will be bombed to the ground. our retarded leaders have made everything dependent on things that are completely out of our control and protection.