Laura Buffet – Transport & Environment https://www.transportenvironment.org Campaigning for cleaner transport in Europe Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:21:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 The year that exposed our addiction to imported oil https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/the-year-that-exposed-our-addiction-to-imported-oil/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:59:29 +0000 https://www.transportenvironment.org/?post_type=article&p=34009 ‘Tumultuous’ is the word that comes to mind when I look back at 2022. I never expected to see a war in Europe and to live through a dramatic energy crisis. Combined with extreme weather events, it really felt at times as if we were all collectively experiencing the limits of a system that has been dysfunctional for far too long. Europe’s addiction to oil and gas imports, especially from Russia...

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]]> The new threat from big oil in biofuels https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/the-new-threat-from-big-oil-in-biofuels/ Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:24:40 +0000 https://www.transportenvironment.org/?post_type=article&p=26381 I joined T&E in 2013 to work on preventing really bad, unconventional, sources of oil like Canadian tar sands from entering the EU, through a piece of law called the Fuel Quality Directive. The oil industry was mobilising heavily, not only in the EU but also in the US and Canada, to simply kill this law. Despite NGOs’ powerful campaigning, many years of fierce lobbying managed to empty the law’s...

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]]> The beginning of the end of the oil era? https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/beginning-end-oil-era/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 20:48:54 +0000 https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/beginning-end-oil-era/ Receive them directly in your inbox. Delivered once a week. Because of lockdowns and travel restrictions, global oil demand dropped by 29 millions barrels per day in April, the worst fall in the history of the oil markets. 2020 was also the year when something very odd, and again unprecedented, happened. US oil prices dropped below zero for the first time in history due to oversupply and limited...

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]]> 10 years of failed fuels policies in Europe: how to break our oil addiction https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/10-years-failed-fuels-policies-europe-how-break-our-oil-addiction/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:58:00 +0000 https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/10-years-failed-fuels-policies-europe-how-break-our-oil-addiction/ This summer will be a special one for Europeans. For the lucky ones who will be able to leave on holidays, two important questions will be how far to go and what means of transport to use at a time when the virus seems to be regaining strength. But if the crisis makes us think differently about the way we travel, does it also make us reflect on the type of energy we use to move around? 

]]> Receive them directly in your inbox. Delivered once a week. The Covid crisis led to a drop in transport oil consumption of 35% (based on T&E’s analysis of EU data for April 2019 vs 2020). Kerosene and petrol consumption dropped very sharply but diesel – which is also used for trucks – saw demand reduce by just 25%. It is interesting that a near-complete stand still of the economy led to these...

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