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Hello Lugano et al.
As a Swedish native I can provide a more
detailed and personal picture of the possibilities of oil independence of this
country. There are a number of buts:
- The power companies are not allowed to
increase the share of electricity coming from hydropower sources, because
there is environmental, nature-protecting legislation. So, in order to
become more independent of oil, we just have to trust that the 11 nuclear power
plants running, will keep on to do so without serious accidents or other side
effects.
- Biodiesel has never been a popular
product within any administration in this country. This is probably because
biodiesel production can be performed in small scale. The administrative
favourite product, ethanol, is a typical large scale product, which complies
more with the industrial traditions of this country. One can even suspect that
there is an attitude proclaiming that it is bad enough letting the farmers be in
control of the food production. Things would get even worse if the farmers were
in control of the energy production as well.
- The petroleum supplies to this country
have mainly been coming from the North Sea for a number of decades now, provided
nominally by Norwegian and British companies. But the northernAtlantic
production has already passed its peak, making changes necessary in order not to
be totally depending upon oil from Russia and the middle east, which can be
considered as a too adventurous project.
- The result of next election can very
well over-throw the ambition of oil independence, since the right-liberal-centre
coalition aiming for office, doesn´t have this target on the agenda.
- The automotive industry, not only the
Swedish, has to acknowledge and accept the goal. So far nothing along this line
has been proclaimed from the industry. In such a small export-depending country
as Sweden, the automotive industry is very power-ful, and used to
having its way.
Jan Warnqvist
+ 46 554 201 89
+46 70 499 38 45 MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "us.rd.yahoo.com" claiming to be Great rates starting at 1¢/min.
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