“I would like you to notice that I am not wearing a tie”: Pedro Sanchez took the journalists who attended his press conference a little by surprise, and they all noticed the collar of his white shirt undone under the usual impeccable blue suit worn by the Spanish socialist premier, who always shows off his tie on every occasion. A personal example, his, addressed to all Spanish “white-collar workers”, to make a small contribution to countering the energy crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine, which overlaps with the hottest summer that can be remembered in living memory .
Undoing the collar, in fact, lowers the body temperature by 2-3 degrees, even if you are wearing the jacket, because the skin of the neck is one of the temperature regulators. Two or three degrees less means a lower impulse to turn on the air conditioning or to raise its power, with an immediate impact on consumption. “When it is not strictly necessary, I would like you not to wear a tie”, because “this means that we can all save energy,” continued Sanchez, who said he had already made the same appeal to ministers and parliamentarians and public administration executives. , asking the private sector, from managers down, to do the same, imitating it in this tear to the ‘dress code’, in this small virtuous gesture when in the Iberian Peninsula peaks of 45 degrees and more have been recorded in recent days.
Small example that constitutes the small tip of the iceberg, which the Spanish government, in line with the European effort to reduce dependence on Russian gas and oil, will announce on Monday with a package of urgent measures, which have not been revealed. But which, it has been anticipated in the media, will contain incentives to work from home, as during the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, to save air conditioning and winter heating in public buildings and offices at the limits of consumption. There will be indications not to lower the thermostat below 27 degrees in summer and over 19 in winter.
The European Union on Tuesday adopted a plan to “do everything possible” to reduce gas consumption by 15% between August and March 2023 compared to consumption over the past five years. And so, from the loose Spanish collars to the German cold showers, the little big steps make the news. As do the steps backwards, like the one highlighted by an indignant French journalist from FranceInfo, who in a video posted on Twitter showed a row of blue cars parked in the courtyard of the Elysée during a Council of Ministers, all with the engine running to keep the air conditioning running, even though no one was inside.
Source: Ansa
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