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So at work we’ve decided if things remain as they are heading into the autumn we’ll initiate a mass work from home edict.

Which is bad news for businesses that rely on commuter footfall.

Autumn?

Some of us got a mass WFH edict last Monday!

Sadly the oil price drives global GDP more than it should, still. Far less than in the 1970s, but still a lot.

Very strong negative correlation between global GDP and crude oil price with a 6-12m lag, with the pattern repeating everywhere except the major commodity exporters.

The US is less affected as it’s now the world’s biggest oil producer. It’s possible to argue that US domestic oil and gas production and exports explain almost the entirety of its GDP performance gap with Europe and Japan in the period since the financial crisis.

So at work we’ve decided if things remain as they are heading into the autumn we’ll initiate a mass work from home edict.

Which is bad news for businesses that rely on commuter footfall.

Autumn?

Some of us got a mass WFH edict last Monday!

I only go into the office to justify going to London and seeing a concert / show

Anecdote alert: two people filling jerry cans at the local garage...

I laugh in my best EV laugh.

You need to recharge via the grid! Increasing gas prices!

Until January of next year I pay 6.5p per kWh to charge my vehicles.

So at work we’ve decided if things remain as they are heading into the autumn we’ll initiate a mass work from home edict.

Which is bad news for businesses that rely on commuter footfall.

If "as they are" means no oil through the Straits of Hormuz, then by the autumn we will be barely working, let alone from home.

Goaded on by Bibi, Trump will likely have nuked Tehran long before then.

We non drivers with bus passes are unconcerned by the oil crisis.
*smug*

Should be OK as long as you don't eat food or buy things

How will it affect cycling fuel? (Pastries and coffee).

Not sure but I guess fertilizer is involved in those things so it could be bad

Yup. Go look at food production - it's all about mechanisation and transport.

So at work we’ve decided if things remain as they are heading into the autumn we’ll initiate a mass work from home edict.

Which is bad news for businesses that rely on commuter footfall.

Is that based on how things are today, or how you envisage things to look like in a months time with Israel still fighting Iran

We are working on a reasonable worst case scenario in the autumn.

I'd be looking at an unreasonable worst case scenario. You are dealing with Donald and Bibi here...

Has anyone used the governments new petrol price finder website? Perhaps it also has a code for "no fuel available..."

Some sites have new functionality...

Is this going to be like that incident from a few years ago, when a couple of stations in a specific area ran out of petrol, but Radio 5 Live could talk about nothing else for six hours, treating it as a national emergency and setting off panic buying among all the road warriors who spend their days listening to the radio.

Why should journalists learn from mistakes?

We non drivers with bus passes are unconcerned by the oil crisis.
*smug*

Should be OK as long as you don't eat food or buy things

How will it affect cycling fuel? (Pastries and coffee).

It will make them more expensive.

Fuel price is the single largest factor in inflation, because it affects the price of everything delivered by road.

It even costs more money to put fuel in the fuel trucks, which makes the fuel more expensive, which…

I know. I'm just grateful that when I cycle to work, I'm the most fuel efficient being on Earth.

Has anyone used the governments new petrol price finder website? Perhaps it also has a code for "no fuel available..."

Some sites have new functionality...

Is this going to be like that incident from a few years ago, when a couple of stations in a specific area ran out of petrol, but Radio 5 Live could talk about nothing else for six hours, treating it as a national emergency and setting off panic buying among all the road warriors who spend their days listening to the radio.