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February 8, 2006

Sweden's goal: give up oil by 2020

  • The aim is to ensure that Swedes will never be forced to use fossil fuels because a renewable energy source is not available.
    • By MATTIAS KAREN
    Associated Press Writer

    STOCKHOLM, Sweden — U.S. President George W. Bush may have surprised international observers by pledging in his State of the Union address to break his country's addiction to foreign oil — but Sweden was already one step ahead of him.

    The environmentally progressive Scandinavian nation has announced one of its most ambitious goals yet: to completely end its dependency on petroleum — and do it in the next 15 years.


     
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