Sweden: Fossil Fuel Free by 2020

What an awesome commitment. Man, I love the swedes. First* that bikini team in the beer commercials, and now this. Of course, I didn't learn about it from the wikipedia article. I found it while reading something that turns out not to be the flying car we all wanted, afterall.

Meanwhile, more than a dozen cities in Sweden are planning podcar systems as part of the country's commitment to be fossil-fuel-free by 2020, said Hans Lindqvist, a councilman from Varmdo, Sweden, and chairman of Kompass, an association of groups and municipalities behind the Swedish initiative.

*: Okay, so I also like ABBA, neutrality, 5 weeks state-sponsored paid vacation a year, universal health care, and several other things Sweden did before this. I used to have some swedish folk music on cassette, and attended two different folk music / folk dancing festivals when I vacationed in Sweden. In general, I like everything about Sweden, with the exception of lutefisk and pickled herring. And I know the bikini team was fictitious. But man, if Sweden had flying cars, and they said flying cars didn't use fossil feul, I'd seriously consider moving there and learning to drive.