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The Silver Lining to the COVID-19 Dark Cloud: People Are Getting Back Into Their Cars

Guest “the gas tank is half-full” by David Middleton.

May 11, 2020 10:03 AM UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Commuters choose cars over public transport to avoid exposure to coronavirus

Javier Blas, Vanessa Dezem and Sarah Chen
Bloomberg

LONDON, BEIJING, FRANKFURT — James Li, a public relations account director, would rather spend an hour sitting in Beijing traffic than risk 30 minutes exposed to crowds on a train. “Traffic is as bad as it could be” but the subway is still too dicey,” he said.

In Frankfurt, real estate assistant Anna Pawliczek is driving to work for the first time in her career. “I definitely have always preferred to chill out in the train, instead of being stuck at traffic lights,” she said.

But days after Germany ended its lockdown, her company is asking returning employees to avoid public transportation at all costs....

Prior to the COVID-19 lockdown, US drivers consumed 9.7 million barrels of gasoline per day (week of March 13, 2020). By April 3, 2020, demand had collapsed to 5.1 million barrels per day as states imposed shelter in place orders. As of the week of May 1, 2020, demand had risen back up to 6.7 million barrels per day, and this was before most states began to reopen their economies.