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Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:54:18 +0000

IEA Tells 2 Billion Workers to Stay Home and Drive Slower — Oil Hits $100/Barrel

The world’s energy watchdog just told everyone to stop commuting, slow down, and maybe learn to like Zoom again. This isn’t a drill.

Oil past $100/barrel. 400 million barrels of emergency reserves released. 20% of global oil production offline. The IEA’s sixth coordinated emergency action in 50 years.

The Strait of Hormuz is still closed. The Iran conflict isn’t slowing down. And the International Energy Agency — the people whose entire job is to worry about this stuff at 3 AM — just told 32 member countries to work from home, drive slower, and stop flying business class. For those of us who lived through the 2022 gas spike, this is that, but worse. Birol says it’s bigger than the 1970s oil crisis. He’s probably right.

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Cool. The planet’s running out of gas (literally). Now What the Hell Do We Do? ಠ_ಠ

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The IEA has hit the emergency button six times in 50 years. Three of those were in the last four. Sleep tight.

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