This is not “new” news since it was included in a press release issued by the Swedish Government on October 1st, but I find it fascinating and, really, worth emulating. Sweden has announced that it is “setting a new policy target: the creation of the conditions necessary to break Sweden’s dependence on fossil fuels by 2020.”
Perhaps this is not completely realistic, but it is precisely the kind of the goal that the United States should have. I think we need to cut our fossil fuel use by at least 50%. Short of an as yet unforeseen technological breakthrough, the continued dependence upon fossil fuels will be the death of us and will lead to an unacceptable degradation of the planet.
President Bush has decided to sacrifice the planet. The planet is being sacrificed because he apparently doesn’t believe that one American job is worth the future of the planet.
Even if we cannot become completely independent of all fossil fuels, we could start with oil. This country is currently only producing about 4 million barrels of oil per day. This mean we are importing about 80% of our oil needs. At a minimum, putting aside the environmental consequences of oil consumption, we would benefit immeasurably from a security and balance of payments standpoint if we took steps to eliminate our oil dependence.
Perhaps this is not completely realistic, but it is precisely the kind of the goal that the United States should have. I think we need to cut our fossil fuel use by at least 50%. Short of an as yet unforeseen technological breakthrough, the continued dependence upon fossil fuels will be the death of us and will lead to an unacceptable degradation of the planet.
President Bush has decided to sacrifice the planet. The planet is being sacrificed because he apparently doesn’t believe that one American job is worth the future of the planet.
Even if we cannot become completely independent of all fossil fuels, we could start with oil. This country is currently only producing about 4 million barrels of oil per day. This mean we are importing about 80% of our oil needs. At a minimum, putting aside the environmental consequences of oil consumption, we would benefit immeasurably from a security and balance of payments standpoint if we took steps to eliminate our oil dependence.
Maybe Georgieboy thinks about migrating the US to Mars.
Posted by: Peter on November 4, 2005 9:50 AM