Uploaded on 2016-08-09 by Aleksander Ødegård

1. The dominant fossil fuel used in Norway is Oil (by a huge margin). 2. The Norwegian consumption of oil is predominantly in transport, but also non-energy use. 3. Changing policies My first order of business would be to invest in innovation and a campaign with the aim of reducing the need for transportation. I believe that the practically feasable root cause is our need and desire for excessive transportation, not necessarily that we burn oil and gas to do so. In other words, it is about scale, not source. In the case of Norway, this represents a real challenge, seeing that we are a small nation of about 5 million people spread out on a relatively large/long geographical area. Next I would try to (further) stimulate the transition to EV not only for personal transportation, but also for commercial transportation (which constitute a larger percentage of consumption and emissions). This would however need to happen without starting a scrapping scheme of perfectly functioning petroleum powered vehicles like they did in the UK some 10 years ago. My argument for this is to use a holistic perspective which focuses on life-cycle energy consumption (and emissions) rather than short term emissions like most policy makers around the world in reality do. Today most of the electricity in Norway is fairly clean hydropower, but in order to meet the future demand for electricity from an predominantly EV-fleet it will be necessary to scale up our electricity production from renewable sources. For this I would suggest further development of our hydropower, but also increase production from wind and solar. The picture is of a RUF Targa electric which Siemens brought to Trondheim for a conference in 2010. This is a good example that EV does not need to be tedious and nasty, but good looking and fun.