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Sweden To Be Oil-Free By 2020
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.
Iceland said the same, but aimed for 2050.
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However our current government has already shut down one nuclear powerplant and has plans to shut down the rest of them.
Your post is misleading too, I think you wanted to write non-renewable energy sources. :)
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What he says is probably true, even though I reckon you wouldn't even have to do that.
Sweden is a very friendly country, and swedish isn't even a de jure official language, only de facto and most swedes are very good english speakers. So you could probably manage to live there without knowing any swedish at first, picking it up as you go.
For more informations, head to the Swedish Migration Board and Sweden Abroad, it'd be a much better source than /.
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http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=572&a=468 440&previousRenderType=6Original article in Swedish, from the swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.l article translated, on Goverment offices of Swedens official site.
http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/3212/a/51058Origina
Now take it with a grain of salt. The article was written for the political debate section of a newspaper, during an election year.
Almost everything is nuclear and water. They make up more than 85% of total electricity output. The rest is a mixture of oil, gas, wind and others.
Loads of information over at http://www.svenskenergi.se/ but unfortunately only in Swedish.
Since treehugger.com was too greedy to publish the link, here is the original announcement http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/3212/a/51058 from Mona Sahlin, Minister for Sustainable Development.
Sweden is a socialist country. EXTREMELY socialist even by pinko european standards. This means very simply that an awfull lot of your income will be taxed and given to people to lazy to work.
And Sweden is the ONLY country in the world that has a higher standard of living than the US.
You say you want a revolution....
"For the duration of the Cold War it was American might parked all across Western Europe.."
For your information. There never have been and never will be any
armed-and-ready American soldier on Swedish soil. Sweden and Finland
were the only probable alternatives for Soviet to invade Europe
(they wouldn't be fools enough to cross the Iron Gate..). Sweden
and Finland took care of ourselves during this time. OK, Finland
is in NATO but Sweden is not. We have our own weapons industry,
our own air defence and air force-industry and the rest. In the
event of a war we would be pretty self-supportive. Why did we
survive during WW2 with more or less no imports?..
During the 1980's when the Swedish Armed Forces peaked we could
draft one million men and women - out of a population of eight..
How many countries do you know of can draft 12.5% of their entire
population into combat within a few days? In a huge country as
Sweden is?..
It's different now, yes. No more Cold War and terrorism is our
common enemy.
Anyway.. Just had to say that because you had troops in Germany
and UK didn't mean you protected entire Europe..
I hate to be nitpicky, but while Japanese are more keen on building big public infrastructures, the population of Tokyo is far denser than LA (also, the Tokyo pop. is over 12,000,000, while L.A. has less than 4,000,000 people). Tokyo is definitely both vertically and horizontally, while L.A. is basically horizontal (Japanese land is scarce, aside from northern Hokkaido perhaps).