Imagine this sort of low demand and resulting much less air pollution on the daily. All it would take would be a replacement of gasoline with alternative fuel.
There is an abundant alternative fuel today (not deuterium fuel from sea water yet). BS! Billions of pounds are produced daily. There is still a problem with thermodynamics, even if you had a pure fuel (at least heat has to be produced). What about global warming then? To reduce heat output (as well as chemical pollution) you have to eliminate billions of unnecessary people, as eugenicists like Bill Gates and company can tell you.
Yes, we have less pollution now, because millions of people are at home, not at work. Having oil at a very low price isn't stable, it will inevitably go up soon enough, once the political stability is restored (unless demand is permanently reduced thru apocalypse). In June 2008, oil was $148 per barrel. The higher the price of oil, the weaker the dollar and vice versa.
https://inflationdata.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Inflation-Adjusted-Crude-Oil-Price-Feb-2020b.pngThe inflation adjusted 1946 price was about $20 per barrel and again in 1974. This is why there was the great expansion of the US economy. The US had to move to the Petra-Dollar because France wanted to financially destroy the US (redeem all dollars for gold) and because OPEC thought they were being screwed paying dollars for oil. Everything changed in 1974, from a static market (regulated by governments and corporations (aka Seven Sisters)) to a more dynamic market. The difficulty of managing all these forces; governments, companies, consumers + pandemic reduced consumption is simply too hard to collude into a profitable stability that once was. Today oil fell thru the $20 level, because cartel-ization is failing, capitalism is winning.
No, free energy isn't happening, same as the wet dreams of Marx aren't happening. But enjoy the cheap price for now, even though most of the cost of a gallon of petrol is government taxes. Now we just need enough anarchism to remove the taxes on petrol, and we can live like it was 1965, all over again ;-)
As it was just before my parents and I moved there, to join my grandparents.