Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Sweden Aims to be World's First Oil-free Nation. About.com:Environmental Issues

Using Renewable Energy, Sweden Plans to End Oil Dependency by 2020
By , About.com Guide

Sweden has moved to the forefront of the world’s “green” nations by setting an ambitious goal to achieve a completely oil-free economy by 2020—and without building more nuclear power plants.

Motivated by global warming and rising oil prices, the Swedish government says it intends to replace all fossil fuels with renewable alternatives before climate change undermines national economies worldwide and diminishing oil supplies force astronomical price increases.

"Our dependency on oil should be broken by 2020," said Mona Sahlin, minister of sustainable development, in an interview with The Guardian newspaper. "There shall always be better alternatives to oil, which means no house should need oil for heating, and no driver should need to turn solely to gasoline."

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2 comments:

  1. ढकाल बन्धु, के यो सम्भव होला त? २०२० त त्यती टाढा छैन। स्विडेन बायोमास उतपादनमा स्वबलम्भी पनि छैन, उही उडी छुनु चन्द्र एक त, होला हैन?

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  2. धन्यवाद बन्धु हजुरको प्रतिक्रियाका लागि, यो target झट्ट सुन्दा त मलाई पनि उही उडी छुनु चन्द्र एक जस्तै लग्यो तर स्वीडेन Renewable Energy मा धेरै नैं अगाडी बढिरहेको देश हो त्यसैले यो सतप्रतिसत नभएपनि धेरै हदसम्म साकार हुनसक्ने देखिन्छ

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