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[luckykaa]

Sweden to abolish use of oil by 2020.

This appeals to the environmentalist in me, bus something about it makes Sweden look irritatingly smugly superior. Coincidentally, 2020 is when a lot of people guess we'll reach peak oil production.

Not quite sure what the exact definition of oil is. Presumably this is just going to be stop using fossil based oil, since biodiesel is carbon neutral and is more convenient than other ways of running cars. While I'm sure they want to encourage mass transit, that can't work for every traveller, surely. And while electricity is good for a lot of uses, it's always been expensive to store.

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[ghostpaw.livejournal.com]

it makes Sweden look irritatingly smugly superior.
Nah, that's just Scandanavian efficiency for you. They don't clat about, they just get on with it. I don't think they're intersted in globopolitical point scoring, probably because it's not efficient ;)

Dammit, why does Sweden have to be so cold? If it wasn't for the 6 month arse deep snow I'd be over there like a shot...

[mizzykitty.livejournal.com]

I wonder about the tires on their cars...will they still be made of rubber? :)

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

Good point. I guess 15 years is plenty of time to wean themselves away from all the oil based synthetics as well. Recycling will get them some of the way there but it's not going to be 100%.