One of the initiatives of Sweden to become free itself of the oil is illegal the alcoholic beverage transformation in biocombusível.
In the passed year, the Swedish government almost confiscated 700 a thousand liters of
alcoholic beverages brought illegally for Sweden. Beer, distilled wines and
apprehended now more simply are not played in the garbage, but converted into biocombustível for cars, bus and until a train. More than 1/4 of all energy consumed in Sweden in 2004 lode of sources you renewed (percentile more than what four times bigger that the européia average). In 2006, Sweden declared to come to become it first independent nation of the oil up to 2020. To run away from the high prices of drinks in Sweden, the Swedish travel for Germany and the Denmark in search of beer, wine and distilled cheap. Traders who return to Sweden with bigger amount of products of what the limit established in the country runs the risk to have its products apprehended in customs. The amount of alcoholic beverages apprehended by the Swedish officers comes in recent years increasing, fact that if it attributes to the commerce to a large extent saw Internet. The confiscated drinks are mixed water and carried to an industrial installation managed by the Swedish company Biogas, in Linköping. Together with other fuel sources, as remaining portions of animals and human garbage, the drinks warm and are placed in anaeróbicos digestores. Reduced chemical composites, the organic material generates biogás. 7 million cubical meters of biogás are almost produced per year. In the process of production of the biocombústiveis, the company also produces fertilizing less aggressive to the half-environment, beyond operating the first moved train biogás. For each liter of burnt gasoline, 2,5 kilos of carbon dioxide are produced. Already the emissions of the biocombustíveis are minimum. In Linköping, a city of 140 a thousand inhabitants, biogás represents between 5 and 6% of the fuel used in ways of transport, being that all the public buses if use of alternative combústiveis. However, although the production of biogás to be more economic of what the production of the gasoline, its distribution still is a problem. In Sweden, it has few tubings by where biogás it can be carried, what it demands that this is compressed in bottles and distributed in trucks, what increases its cost. What it becomes it, still thus more economic for the consumer they are the tax incentives. Drivers who use biocombústivel save about 40 dollars American for mile, in comparison to that they use gasoline, and do not need to pay to tolls in Estocolmo nor parking in many of the great Swedish cities. About 40 a thousand of the 4 million cars that circulate in Sweden they use alternative combustivel. In May of 2007, Sweden launched a new bond program that offers the equivalent about 1.400 dollars American, in money, to the proprietors of a new projected car to pollute the half-environment less.