Sri Lanka has just launched a 4-day week because of the Iran war—now, the nation is giving workers Wednesdays off in a desperate bid to conserve fuel
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If anything positive will come out of this whole mess it's the fact that it'll speed up the transition to renewables.
Dig even deeper for oil you say?
Let's spend all our remaining oil to build an enormous rocket to the moon, so we can mine all of the oil on the moon.
Why not let them do the remaining four days from home as well, further fuel savings!
Instead of giving everyone the same day it should be varied, otherwise you’ll end up with an imbalance of people trying to get things done like it’s a weekend day.
And that would reduce rush hour traffic, which is bad for fuel efficiency.
Fucking Wednesdays?
Not my thing but if it gets you going then go on and get your freak on
Yeah I'd much rather have a 3 day weekend
Poor country, they just had massive flood few months ago, now another crisis…
I hope they will invest in renewables and evs…
The average annual income for a professional in Sri Lanka is the equivalent of $200/month or $2400/year. How would they be investing in EVs?
I know I know… only hope for import used ones, especially when they had agreement with Japan India etc
And electric tuktuks would be great