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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. Iceland by jynus · · Score: 5, Informative

    Iceland said the same, but aimed for 2050.

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  2. Re:So.... by masklinn · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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