Sweden Plans to be Oil-Free by 2020 - GreenHybrid

Delta Flyer · #1 (**permalink**) 02-08-2006, 02:34 PM

Exxon says America can't do this. Sweden is running on 26% alternative fuels and plans to be oil free in fifteen years. While I'm not suggesting to emulate their society, I do think a serious energy policy is a very good idea....

BBC Story

springkitten · #2 (**permalink**) 02-08-2006, 03:27 PM

Sweden may be the next global Super Power (the rest of us will be back in the Stone Age) I think I'll buy a horse while they're still cheap...

ralph_dog · #3 (**permalink**) 02-08-2006, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by springkitten

Sweden may be the next global Super Power (the rest of us will be back in the Stone Age) I think I'll buy a horse while they're still cheap...

Wonder if they will be going back to glass milk bottles, pill bottles, paper cartons, copper pipe, wooden wagon wheels and steel dashboards for the Saab's or maybe they will just be importing all their plastics, syn rubber, etc??? It's expensive to live there now, think of how much all that stuff will cost by then?? Or maybe they import all of that junk anyway??? Or by oil free, do they mean just transportation, electric generation, air travel, teflon cookware??? Yeeesh, where do they come up with this junk..

Delta Flyer · #4 (**permalink**) 02-08-2006, 05:14 PM

What I was thinking when posting this thread was this is the polar opposite of Exxon saying it's useless and detremental for America to be foreign oil-free, much less be totally oil-free. Just wishing for a serious resolve for America to reduce oil-consumption.

ralph_dog · #5 (**permalink**) 02-08-2006, 05:45 PM

My feelings exactly.

The US will be oil free I fear only when its all gone....

laurie · #6 (**permalink**) 02-08-2006, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by springkitten

Sweden may be the next global Super Power (the rest of us will be back in the Stone Age) I think I'll buy a horse while they're still cheap...

HA. i HAVE a horse, and he wasn't cheap. however, i can renew his food by cutting our field every year.

Delta Flyer · #7 (**permalink**) 02-08-2006, 09:17 PM

I said this once, but Ford is sort of putting Volvo to good use as they make the hybrid components of the FEH - GM needs to do the same with Saab. I think Saab has a concept hybrid....