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Re:Norway Idea to Exit Oil Stocks Is ‘Shot Heard Around the ... by igravious on Sunday November 19, 2017 @08:19AM (#15733782)
> the retail sales of gasoline and diesel fuel has not yet shown any decline in Norway [1]

Odd. The stats you point to say otherwise. Says motor gasoline is down (1.9%) and diesel is up (4.7%) – so it's kind of a wash.

More interestingly (in the context of this news of divestment) the total figures are down year on year on year

(in 1000 litres units)

    2012    9 635 521
    2013    9 279 405
    2014    8 995 567
    2015    8 827 093
    2016    8 790 684
In light of those figures divestment looks sensible.
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Re:Norway Idea to Exit Oil Stocks Is ‘Shot Heard Around the ... by semi-extrinsic on Sunday November 19, 2017 @09:14AM (#15733958)
No, you have to look at just the sum of dutiable diesel and gasoline, which shows no decrease (even an increase). Most of the change you're summarizing above is reduced usage of light fuel oil (for heating), marine fuel and heavy distillate, particularly the latter two. Those changes are not caused by EVs.
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