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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. So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How do they plan on generating electricity?

    (I refuse to RTFA to find out)

  2. Re:So.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Sweden is a very friendly country,
    Friendly only to certain groups. If you're not brown, you're in for a lot fights in the city and you'll be the Invisible Man as a foreigner: the brown 1st, 2nd and 3rd gen immigrants won't like you and the indigenous people will know you're a foreigner and won't like you.
    ... and swedish isn't even a de jure official language, only de facto and most swedes are very good english speakers.
    See above. The indigenous population is in the minority in the cities. Many 1st and 2nd gen immigrants can't speak Swedish much or at all. In the general population youth can't speak Swedish, but an anglicized derivative. Think east Los Angeles.
  3. Re:Not just Sweden by argStyopa · · Score: -1, Troll

    That really sucks if you live in a country with poor mass transportation like, uh... 90% of the United States. It's going to be mostly OK in many European countries, where mass transportation (including high-speed trains) is already a fact of life and renewable energies are being increasingly adopted. I am not saying it will be a walk in the park, because it won't be, but most wealthy countries consume too much energy and waste so much of it.

    LOL, oh noes! gasoline prices in the USA are going to spike to 2x what they are now... ...bringing our gas prices somewhere close to where Europe's are TODAY.

    No, the bigger fear is that as people overreact to the dire "sky is falling" media projections, the "Green" (actually socialist/communist) parties in every country will gain more supporters for their fascistic anti-business, anti-capitalist agendas. THAT'S when our economies are going to go in the toilets. ...

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    -Styopa
  4. Hope they've seen "Syriana" by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apparently, the US doesn't take kindly to other countries going cold-turkey on oil.

    //I try to get out, and they just puullllll me back in...

  5. Re:So.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The swedes believe they are "enlighted" because of their love of niggers. They really are a joke and I will enjoy watching their country slowly deteriorate. I was in stockholm during the Eurocup a few years ago. It was quite a sight to watch the brown skinned mongrels they have over there go apeshit and crazy when sweden won. The swedes have really gone to great lengths to try to integrate these people, it'll be interesting to watch it backfire in their smug faces.