An oil family doesn't run their country

[D_Raay]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,,1704954,00.html

Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15 years - without building a new generation of nuclear power stations.

Now here is an effective method toward establishing "democracy" in the middle east.

[ASsman]

I don't see how this would work. Cars running on sand? And the blood of infidels?

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It would be a start though, Iceland now Sweden? The rest of the world will fall to these communist ideals. We must attack now.

[Qdrop]

like the article said, even fuckin BUSH admitted in his State speach that the US is addicted to oil, and needs to greatly ween itself in the coming decades....planning on Nuclear power, and hyrdogen cars to replace it.

just imagine though....WTF are these middle east countries going to do in the next 50 years when Oil is phased out world wide? Oil is there only main export, the source of all thier wealth....those countries will fuckin crumble...and become incrediblely DESPARATE!

[ASsman]

Hydrogen cars? Pff, hardly. And more nuclear power plants with all this "terrorism" going on, doubtful. Something less drastic must be done, like ethanol or biodiesel. Instead of COMPLETLY changing our modes of transportation. Safer motorcycle,single seater, type cars would also be a good direction. We have to go through phases, not just jump off the oil. Could get ugly.

As for running out of their main export. I don't think is would be the first time, could switch over to a different type of economy. Not sure what that could be, use your imagination. Also if we do something now, that won't happen for a while, there are plenty of petrol based products still. Plastic.

[STANKY808]

like the article said, even fuckin BUSH admitted in his State speach that the US is addicted to oil, and needs to greatly ween itself in the coming decades....planning on Nuclear power, and hyrdogen cars to replace it.


Oh well if he said it he must mean it. Or maybe not.


ONE day after U.S. President George W. Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 per cent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said he did not mean that literally.

What the President meant, they said in a conference call with reporters, was that alternative fuels could displace an amount of oil imports equivalent to most of what America was expected to import from the Middle East in 2025.

America still would import oil from the Middle East, because that was where the greatest oil supplies were.

The President's State of the Union reference to Mid-East oil made headlines worldwide because of his assertion "America is addicted to oil" and his call to "break this addiction." Mr Bush vowed to fund research into better batteries for hybrid vehicles and more production of the alternative fuel ethanol.

He set a lofty goal of replacing "more than 75 per cent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025."

He pledged to "move beyond a petroleum-based economy and make our dependence on Middle Eastern oil a thing of the past".

Not exactly, though, it has turned out. "This was purely an example," Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said.

He acknowledged oil was a freely traded commodity bought and sold globally by private firms. Consequently, it would be very difficult to reduce imports from any single region, especially the most oil-rich region on Earth.

Asked why the President used the words "the Middle East" when he did not really mean them, one Administration official said Mr Bush wanted to dramatise the issue in a way "every American listening to the speech understands".

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