Tom Fairless

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116 appearances 6 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 8 Jun

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WSJ What’s News · Governments Push Citizens to Cut Back in Scramble to Save Energy · 20 Mar 2026 podcast
Advice on governments on how to limit energy consumption.
Citizens to use less power, so fly less, use public transport, work from home, reduce the speed limit on highways.
So really quite a broad range of measures to limit demand.
The International Energy Agency, or the IEA, in Paris issued new guidelines this week.
Advice on governments on how to limit energy consumption.
Citizens to use less power, so fly less, use public transport, work from home, reduce the speed limit on highways.
So really quite a broad range of measures to limit demand.
And the majority of the oil that is passing through the Strait of Hormuz, where the difficulties are, goes to Asia.
And so it's really poorer countries there, especially, that have quickly started to urge their citizens to find ways to save energy.
Bangladesh has banned the use of air conditioning to cool buildings under 77 degrees.
It's ordered universities to close.
It's brought forward a public holiday for Ramadan.
Sri Lanka has instituted a four-day work week, Wednesdays off, so that they wouldn't have a run of three days when the government offices were closed.
And Pakistan has initially closed schools for two weeks.
In Thailand, presenters on TV removed their jackets in a kind of flamboyant effort to encourage citizens to turn down the air conditioning.
And the civil servants there have been told to use the stairs instead of elevators where they can and to wear lighter clothing.
So there's really a broad range of measures, new ones coming day by day.
And energy-saving policies are likely to get stricter now that liquefied natural gas facilities in Iran and Qatar have been hit.
Another shock to global supplies.
So far, there hasn't been widespread stories of unrest, but there has been more protest, especially when it comes to taxes.
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