{"id":558747,"date":"2026-03-23T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558747\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:17:08","slug":"iea-proposes-cutting-speed-limits-to-conserve-fuel-amid-middle-east-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558747\/","title":{"rendered":"IEA proposes cutting speed limits to conserve fuel amid Middle East conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cutting highway speed limits by 10km\/h could reduce overall oil use from cars by 1 to 6 per cent, according to the International Energy Agency, which has listed 10 recommendations to help member nations such as Australia conserve their fuel supplies during the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Reeve, energy and climate change program director at the Grattan Institute, said the IEA\u2019s recommendations were beneficial in theory but didn\u2019t necessarily address the unique circumstances of Australia\u2019s fuel use.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cutting highway speed limits by 10km\/h could reduce overall oil use from cars by 1 to 6 per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-558747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}