Sweden Plans to Be World’s First Oil-Free Economy

Posted on Feb 8, 2006

The Guardian: Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15 years - without building a new generation of nuclear power stations.

The attempt by the country of 9 million people to become the world’s first practically oil-free economy is being planned by a committee of industrialists, academics, farmers, car makers, civil servants and others, who will report to parliament in several months. | story

Truthdig says: Hey, they won’t even have to get on a plane to collect their Nobel Prize!

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