After the spectacular success found in making an “evergreen” promise to swear off of nuclear power (that is, they renew – translated: postpone – the promise every now and then, with the latest vow being by 2050), Sweden recently decided to swear off of oil, too!

Of late, Sweden has also assumed a particularly annoying boastfulness about its greenhouse gas emissions and Kyoto performance, which I must remind you – as they certainly don’t – amounted to a promise not to increase their emissions beyond a certain amount (4% above 1990 levels). Their current official projection offered to the European Environment Agency in mid-2006, of being at or just below that, is apparently the stuff that Kyoto legends are made of.

Everything is relative, however, so context for such boastfulness is found in the fact that tdoes in fact leave them as just one of two among the EU-15 who project emissions consistent with their promises under the Kyoto Protocol.

Today’s news also suggests that a little more Scandinavian reserve might be in order.