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By Larry West, About.com Guide to Environmental Issues since 2005

Sweden Aims to be World's First Oil-free Nation

Friday February 10, 2006
windmill.jpg Sweden has set an ambitious goal to eliminate its dependency on oil by 2020. The nation of 9 million people has made a good start at becoming oil-free. Sweden is already less dependent on oil than other nations in the European Union and a world leader in the use of renewable energy.
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