OIL! If Sweden can do it!

[burrowowl]

Why can't we, who landed on the moon?

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0208-05.htm

[Massacure]

1. It's amusing how they decry nuclear power.

Last time I checked, cars don't run using nuclear reactors.

But I'm happy Sweeden is breaking the oil habbit.

[demosincebirth]

2. Its easier to do if you only have 9 million people.

[burrowowl]

3. Sputnik and Kennedy got this Nation's

ass in gear!
Of course education has really gone down the drain in the U$, can we recuperate!

[demosincebirth]

7. As long as republicans have any say , it will not happen.

[dweller]

4. criminy!

the axis of eeevil just keeps on growing...

dp

[greenman3610]

5. Some very big players, including Cargill

are right now entering the Biodiesel field in a big way, with
plants going up that will produce mammoth amounts of the
fuel in the midwest.
The initial target market is transportation, with long distance
truckers an obvious one. Trucks can burn bio with no modification-
and you have a customer base that is receptive to the
patriotic argument for the switch.
That's why Willie Nelson is spending his time
preaching biodiesel at truckstops around the country.

an example of an impending paradigm shift that will,
as usual, take the media by surprise...

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. Curious...

Sweden:
Population: 9,001,774 (July 2005 est.)
Oil - consumption: 346,100 bbl/day (2003 est.)
Consumption per person per day: .038 bbl

US:
Population: 295,734,134 (July 2005 est.)
Oil - consumption: 20.03 million bbl/day (2003 est.)
Consumption per person per day: .068 bbl

Our oil consumption per person is double that of Sweden.

The source for these figures is the CIA world factbook, except for the per-person figures, which I did.