The IEA’s other suggestions for governments, businesses and individuals include:

• Promoting use of public transport
• Giving private cars access to city centres on alternate days
• Encouraging car sharing and efficient driving habits
• Avoiding air travel where possible, especially business flights
• Switching to electric cooking

It also said there should be a focused effort to preserve liquid petroleum gas for cooking and other essential uses, by switching bio-fuel converted vehicles onto gas and introducing other measures to reduce its use.

Aber auch das ist ja wieder keine langfristige Abkehr von Fossilen.

“I believe the world has not yet well understood the depth of the energy security challenge we are facing,” he added.

“It is much bigger than what we had in the 1970s… It is also bigger than the natural gas price shock we experienced after the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”

Und auch das, okay, die Krise ist größer. Aber da wird eben auch nichts gefordert, was langfristige Veränderungen betrifft.