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 STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - U.S. President George W. Bush may have surprised international observers by pledging in his State of the Union address to break his country's addiction to foreign oil — but Sweden was already one step ahead of him.
The environmentally progressive Scandinavian nation has announced one of its most ambitious goals yet: to completely end its dependency on petroleum — and do it in the next 15 years.
"Our dependency on oil should be broken by 2020," said Mona Sahlin, the minister of Sustainable Development.
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