Prime Minister Goran Persson announced this week that Sweden will try to end its dependency on fossil fuels in 15 years by, among other things, ramping up use of wind power, boosting research into renewable-energy technologies, and providing incentives for renewable power and clean cars. Swede dreams are made of this ...
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Posted 6:28 PM on 16 Sep 2005
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To counteract today's totally bummer crop of news, a cheery development from my peeps, the Swedes:
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amazingdrx Posted 4:40 am
18 Sep 2005
Forget detroit.
The new big three automakers. Honda, Toyota, and Volvo.
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jimbeyer Posted 6:40 am
19 Sep 2005
Saab is owned by GM.
Build plugin hybrids that run on renewable methane. That's all that's needed.
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amazingdrx Posted 10:39 pm
20 Sep 2005
That was a big mistake. Maybe they will correct it? As GM and ford face junk bond status and bankruptcy will assets like Volvo and Saab be on the auction block?
Another approach would be for the sWedes to charge the korporate kriminal konspiracies disguised as auto manufacturers (GM and Ford)with their obvious monopolistic transgressions and fine them...oh say ...Volvo and Saaab. Hehehey.
Will duuuhbya invade to stop that?
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