They're doing what most unemployed people do with any extra free time: scrolling feeds, playing video games, watching netflix/youtube, posting bad political takes to websites like this one.

I can assure you they won't be going on 1.5 hr long car rides everyday to nowhere.

Again, whether this is good or bad is certainly up for debate. But if the thing you claim to be worried about is "carbon emissions" then this is objectively a good thing for that particular concern.