{"id":1880,"date":"2006-02-10T02:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2006\/02\/10\/sweden-planning-to-go-oil-free\/"},"modified":"2006-02-10T02:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T02:48:00","slug":"sweden-planning-to-go-oil-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/sweden-planning-to-go-oil-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden Planning to Go Oil-Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While Dubya’s new budget makes it clear that we’re not really going to do a hell of a lot about our “oil addiction,”<\/a> the Swedes are taking a quite different approach: they’re developing a plan for being “practically oil-free” by 2020<\/a>. Though this news came out some time back, the Guardian has published an article<\/a> that’s spread like wildfire across the blogosphere<\/a>. I linked to the post from the MoJo blog because author Bradford Plummer draws the inevitable comparison between Sweden and the US:<\/p>\n

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Now the obvious question: Why can’t the United States do something like this? There are major differences between us and Sweden, sure: the latter is much smaller, uses less oil, has an abundance of rivers, more nuclear power plants, and less sprawl. That all makes things much easier. And, according<\/a> to Prime Minister Goran Persson, Sweden’s farms and forests are more conducive to generating biofuel than America’s. But as I’ve pointed out<\/a> before, it’s physically impossible to power the whole world\u2014or even more than a small portion\u2014with biofuel, and the United States would have to find its own mix of renewable resources no matter what (most likely involving a heavy dose of solar). So Sweden’s not, in a strict sense, a “model” here.<\/p>\n

Still, this is what a grown-up approach to energy policy looks like. Nothing mind-blowing. Nothing impossible. All you need is a government willing to act. The contrast between the Swedes and an administration that backtracks from even modest statements on ending our oil addiction\u2014and then lays off 32 workers<\/a> at the National Renewable Energy Lab because of a $28 million budget shortfall there\u2014pretty much speaks for itself. Lucky us. [my emphasis]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Lucky us, indeed!<\/p>\n

Categories: oil<\/a>, energy<\/a>, addiction<\/a>, renewables<\/a>, Sweden<\/a>, politics<\/a>, Dubya<\/a>, budget<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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