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Sweden To Be Oil-Free By 2020

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bold-statements-only-time-will-tell dept.

Philoneist.com writes "Treehugger is reporting that the 'Minister for Sustainable Development Mona Sahlin has declared that Sweden is going to become the first country in the world to break the dependence on fossil energy.'" Sweden's hope is to have all of the country's energy supplied by only renewable resources, ridding the country of cars that run on gasoline and oil-heated homes.

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  1. Re:So... by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 2, Funny

    Their words are back with nucle.... renewable energy weapons!

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    May the Maths Be with you!
  2. Re:Wrong section... by PrayingWolf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sweden is a *BIG* piece of hardware :)
    right?

  3. Re:Not just Sweden by Peter+La+Casse · · Score: 2, Funny
    In the worst possible case, I think governments will strongly intervene -- they will have to -- to guarantee (and subsidize) oil supplies to the most crucial consumers (food producers, electricity producers, emergency responders, armed forces) while the rest of us will have to use mass transportation and convert ASAP to a regimen of energy efficiency and renewable energy.

    In the worst possible case, the closest thing to government will be the roving bands of marauders looking for you and for me because they're hungry. And then, after we've survived (after eating our own loved ones) long enough to suffer the worst effects of radiation poisoning, the red sulfurous bowels of the Earth ("Hell") will open up and Satan will come out, point at me and say "Hey guys, he's hiding over there!"

    That would be the worst possible case: collapse of civilization, cannibalism of one's own family, radiation poisoning, being eaten by roving bands of marauders and then learning that one guessed wrong about that whole religion thing.

    Granted, to an anarchist it might be worse if governments strongly intervene.

  4. Zing by umbrellasd · · Score: 2, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our tall blonde petroleum free overladies! (There's always water-based.)

  5. Re:So.... by tutori · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hear they also have a wonderful telephone system...