Sweden Plans to Be World’s First Oil-Free Economy
The progressive European enclave has set a 15-year limit on its switch to renewable energy. | storyHey, they won't even have to get on a plane to collect their Nobel Prize!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
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