{"id":64302,"date":"2026-05-12T20:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/64302\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:20:30","slug":"vitol-pushes-back-peak-oil-demand-forecast-on-slow-ev-takeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/64302\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitol Pushes Back Peak Oil Demand Forecast On Slow EV Takeup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The world\u2019s largest independent oil trader Vitol Group said oil demand will take longer to peak than it previously estimated as countries prioritize growth and energy security over efforts to curb consumption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cOver the past year, decarbonisation policies have become a less decisive driver of efforts to curb oil consumption and reduce carbon dioxide emissions,\u201d it said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/vitoloutlook.com\/?utm_source=Media+post&amp;utm_medium=Website&amp;utm_id=Feb26_update\" title=\"Link to report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">report on Monday<\/a>. \u201cPolicy priorities have increasingly been reframed around economic competitiveness and geopolitical strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s largest independent oil trader Vitol Group said oil demand will take longer to peak than it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[190,351,187,8251,184,197,11302,34387,231,10825,158,11301],"class_list":{"0":"post-64302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vitol","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-electric-vehicles","11":"tag-energy-industry","12":"tag-energy-security","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-generic-1st-cl-future","15":"tag-generic-1st-xb-future","16":"tag-markets","17":"tag-policy","18":"tag-vitol","19":"tag-vitol-group-the"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116563465050370623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}