2009Sept20: Denmark does not import any oil from the Middle East. It imported all its oil from the Middle East in 1973. How did Denmark end its addiction to Middle East oil? “Because Denmark got tough. It imposed on itself a carbon tax, a roughly $5-a-gallon gasoline tax, made massive investments in energy efficiency and in systems to generate energy from waste, along with a discovery of North Sea oil (about 40 percent of its needs),” wrote Thomas Friedman in the New York Times (New York Times, 2009).
Reference: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/opinion/20friedman.html
Watch NOW on PBS: Electric Car Dreams, a case study on Danish wind power and electric cars http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/544/index.html
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