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    ‘Please, please, please’: Denmark urges citizens to avoid driving as oil prices spike

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    2. CanadianMultigun on

      1. Work from home
      2. Compare the cost of this vs having built more renewables infrastructure, imagine how reduced the impact would be if nuclear, renewables, home batteries and vehicle charge points were in a much better position
      3. Don´t come crawling back to us when after this something comparable occurs and yet again the cry is “who could have seen this coming”

    3. botsoundingname on

      At the same time, Hungary caps fuel prices and basically incentivizes more consumption 😂😂

    4. AspiringCanuck on

      Told coworkers to consider using public transport. For some of them, it was as if I had said something bordering on insulting.

    5. Express_Ad5083 on

      And yet far right in Europe (for example Poland) are pushing for more fossil fuels consumption.

    6. WorldlinessRadiant77 on

      Look, I am a big city dweller. I can not drive for a month with zero impact.

      My wife not so much – she works in a suburb. A plumber in Bumfuckshagen, Denmark… well he may not have a choice.

    8. elenorfighter on

      Thank god that Merz did everything he could to bring us back to oil and gas. What could possibly go wrong.

    9. ThatWeLike on

      Everything about this article is so off. I cant find anything in any Danish media to suggest that this is actually something from our minister of transport.

      We also dont have any phrases that could ever translate to “please, please, please” without it being a really far-fetched translation. I’ve literally never seen Google attempt to translate anything that way, and I’ve taught English to lazy pre-teens for nearly a decade.

      E: Im an idiot. Energy minister said it, and he said “please please please” in a Danish phrase, which complete threw me off, as its not a particularly official-sounding statement.

    10. -mudflaps- on

      manual laborers are the ones who will be affected, anyone with wealth, as usual is generally immune to such “problems”.

    11. aReasonableStick on

      This honestly should be the push to make all nations of Europe look at their plan to move away from fossil fuels and really commit to it.

    12. viskonde on

      Funny to see this in a country where people already cycle quite a lot and that actually has their own gas resources 

      Also in countries where people use more car is due to decades of investment in the wrong place that “forces” people to use the car. Asking pretty please wont change decades of investment in roads and none in public transport..

    13. Rialagma on

      I don’t know why I read that as “drilling” and I was like damn those Danes ain’t messing around, they WILL find that oil

    14. powerchicken on

      Having spent a lot of time in Denmark over the years, it’d be a whole lot easier to not drive if the trains weren’t as disappointing as they are. Expensive, slow and dreadfully unreliable.

    15. M90Motorway on

      Any Americans who doesn’t already live in Europe shouldn’t be allowed to drive. Tourists wanting to drive the NC500 in Scotland can get a bus and cycle. A business executive going from Glasgow Airport to the centre of Glasgow can do the same. America caused this so their journeys should be non-essential by default. If Trump gets voted out and oil prices return to normal then we can re-negotiate this arrangement.

    16. PremiumAzteca on

      Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, the government is having the biggest tax orgasm of its lifetime

    19. M4hkn0 on

      Europe is much better equipped to handle spikes in oil prices than the U.S. is. Europe has a well developed mass transit system that actually works. Europe’s urban development is generally walkable and accessible without the use of automobiles.

      Americans will be totally fucked if we, in America, have shortages and $200 oil. The cost of sprawl….

    20. de-BelastingDienst on

      The party of free speech (as they claim) when it comes to… differing opinions

    22. CaptchaSolvingRobot on

      Sorry can’t do. Boss still wants me to come to work so I can sit in online meetings all day.

      They should appeal to employers instead.

    25. ZooeiiVJ on

      This will always be a issue when so much of the oil comes from the middle east. Solution: switch to electric cars so fewer is dependent on foreign oil.

    26. MoistDragonfly5324 on

      I was scrolling before my coffee and misread it as drinking, for a split second it made sense why the Americans were so upset with Denmark

    28. EatAssIsGold on

      A side remark that will rightfully go almost completely ignored. No need to use it to build a narrative of energy starved Europeans. We’ll survive pretty ok.

    29. mihaajlovic on

      Bullshit. Give us more big combustion engines! Love driving my car every day.

      However I work from home, so win win really.

    30. Mindless-Peak-1687 on

      This is a hyperbole bullshit article that do not reflect reality and takes things out of context

    31. IgorGirkinStrelkov2 on

      Europe is a superpower, oil prices could quadruple and it shouldn’t cause chaos

    32. ScriptThat on

      I’ve neither seen nor heard anything about this, and the front page of the news sites I read have no mention of this.

      It must have been a very gentle urge.

    33. lukkoseppa on

      And here I am in Finland idling my Cat loader for an hour cuz its a little chilly.

    35. Simple-Sun2608 on

      The country that uses the most bicycles in the world for daily commute is asking citizens not to drive. Okay.

    38. 13rice_ on

      Can we put back the mandatory sale of electric cars after 2035 ?

      So, we don’t give a fuck in 10 years if oil prices spike for fuel.

    39. jalanajak on

      What is the substitute for driving a car or taxi? Public transport. The government should:
      1. Secure energy supply for public transport.
      2. Run night buses to reduce the need for taxi (for a double/triple fee)
      3. Promote ride-sharing mode for taxis.
      4. (Temporarily) ramp up congestion and toll road fees and speeding fines.