"The United States continues discussions with oil and gas producing countries to reduce the European Union's (EU) energy dependence on Russia," US Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm said in reply to the question of APA's correspondent.
According to her, the United States works with the Union, as well as with producing countries, to increase supplies and efficiency measures to the European energy market: "Obviously there has been a lot of discussions about how the U.S. can help, how other countries who are producing countries can help. Those discussions go on to see whether we can increase supply, as I mentioned. The U.S. is asking our oil and gas producers to do that. We have done these releases from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve in concert with the IEA. We have been exporting every molecule of liquified natural gas that we possibly can, and have asked other countries who are producing countries to do the same."
US Secretary of Energy stressed that a 10-item plan has been submitted to increase the efficiency of energy use in the EU and reduce demand. If the proposed measures are followed, oil imports from Russia could be reduced significantly: "The measures there alone would lower oil demand by about 2.7 million barrels a day within four months, which is equivalent to the oil demand of all the cars in China. We’ve got to replace a lot of that Russian oil, and efficiency can be a great partner in that. And since most oil demand comes from the transportation sector, obviously the plan focuses on how to use less oil getting people and goods from A to B, and it – that plan draws on concrete measures that have already been used in a diverse range of countries and cities."
"The short-term actions, I think, that it proposes include: reducing the amount of home – of oil that – excuse me – I’ll just say this: reducing the amount of oil consumed by cars through lower speed limits and measures like working from home for those who can – obviously, people who work in the service sector don’t have that luxury, but working from home where you can; occasional limits on car access to city centers, like some in Europe have done; cheaper public transport; more carpooling; greater use of high-speed rail – all of those initiatives that Europe is very familiar with. And we really value the IEA’s important thought leadership to help member countries enhance their energy security while assessing options to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future," Jennifer M. Granholm emphasized.
Note that J. Granholm will visit the French capital Paris to attend a meeting of the International Energy Agency (IEA). The meeting, which will be attended by energy ministers of 31 IEA member states, as well as representatives of partner countries, will be chaired by J. M. Granholm. The meeting will discuss issues such as accelerating the transition to clean energy and increasing global energy security.
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