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What bothers me is the hypocrisy of Norway. On the one hand they wage war against cars and fossil fuels domestically. On the other hand they refuse to stop exploring new oil deposits or reduce oil production and exports. They are not bothered with all this oil burnt elsewhere. They are doing very little about that.

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Norway isn’t a monolith. Oslo city councilors don’t have any control over oil production/exports.

There are nation wide policies in Norway promoting green energy for example, they give incentives to electricity cars. There are policies in other cities too which is adding tolls and expensive parking etc. to discourage use of cars.

Which is great but that is nothing compared to all the oil that is exported. I get that they can’t immediately stop producing oil. but they are also not slowing and also exploring new deposits.

That is the right way to do things. If Norway can export oil to India, they should. Not all countries can switch away from oil as easily, and countries should let other countries to switch on their own cost and time.

I know not all countries can switch from oil easily. So I am not asking Norway to stop extracting oil together. But what I am concerned is that Norway is expanding oil exploration in the Arctic [0]. Which is a perfect example of hypocrisy.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-oil-idUSKCN1QV1OX

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