By Kit Knightly - March 26, 2026

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just published a new report that claims to identify ten “demand-side measures” which will “alleviate the economic impacts [of the] war in the Middle East.”

Titled “Sheltering From Oil Shocks”, it is notionally aimed at “easing oil price pressures on consumers”, but it reads like a page straight out of the Great Reset playbook.

Its ten recommendations include old favourites like working from home, limiting air travel and even phasing out gas cookers…

…targeted actions can ease pressure on fuels that are particularly constrained. A reduction in air travel where alternatives exist can significantly lower demand for jet fuel. Measures to shift LPG use away from transport and towards essential applications, such as cooking, can help protect vulnerable households. At the same time, encouraging the uptake of alternative clean cooking solutions where feasible can reduce reliance on LPG and avoid a return to more polluting fuels that harm people’s health.

In full, their recommendations are:

1. Work from home where possible

2. Reduce highway speed limits by at least 10 km/h

3. Encourage public transport

4. Alternate private car access to roads in large cities on different days

5. Increase car sharing and adopt efficient driving practices

6. Efficient driving for road commercial vehicles and delivery of goods

7. Divert LPG use from transport

8. Avoid air travel where alternative options exist

9. Where possible, switch to other modern cooking solutions

10. Leverage flexibility with petrochemical feedstocks and implement short-term efficiency and maintenance measures

If a lot of those sound familiar, well, that’s because they were suggested inclusions in “Climate Lockdowns”, those totally imaginary things that conspiracy theorists just made up.

Let’s take a deeper look at a couple.

Number 4 is especially fascinating. What exactly does “alternate private car access in large cities on different days” mean? Because at first glance it doesn’t look like correct English.

The report explains . . .

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