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Emma Munbodh & Megan Banner

Cars could be banned on Sundays and speed limits slashed as oil crisis continues

Cars could be banned from the roads in major cities on Sundays as part of new proposals to limit the UK's reliance on Russian oil while the invasion of Ukraine continues.

The recommendation is one of 10 put forward by the International Energy Agency (IEA) as fuel prices continue to rocket across the country, despite wholesale prices falling for more than 10 days.

Other measures in the plan include: cutting the motorway speed limit to 64mph, asking people to work from home for three days a week and banning cars on Sundays. The measures, if put in place worldwide, outlined , could cut global oil demand by 2.7million barrels per day within four months, reports the Mirror.

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