Commission On Oil Independence
To make recommendations on how dependency on oil should be broken, the government created a Commission on Oil Independence (Kommissionen för att bryta oljeberoendet i Sverige till år 2020), headed by the then Prime Minister Göran Persson, which reported in June 2006.
In their report, the Commission proposed the following targets for 2020:
- consumption of oil in road transport to be reduced by 40-50 per cent;
- consumption of oil in industry to be cut by 25-40 per cent;
- heating buildings with oil, a practice already cut by 70% since the 1973 oil crisis, should be phased out;
- overall, energy should be used 20% more efficiently.
Replacing oil with renewable energy sources and energy conservation measures to cut total energy use was envisioned. This is also expected to result in cuts in carbon emissions and to strengthen the country's role in sustainable development technologies as well as increasing its international economic competitiveness.
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