And how long of a window of opportunity is "right now", exactly?
What does it take to get elected to parliament in Sweden? Is he trying to get a party nomination? Run as an independent? Register ASPO as a political party? Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
But!
It is possible to get elected anyway if something like 2000-2500 people who live in Uppsala and vote for the liberals marks his name on their voting card. The Liberal party got a record 20.000 votes in the 2002 election in Uppsala, 18,6 % of the total. This was because they stole lots of votes from the Moderate party (liberal-conservative). The Moderates are sure to regain many of those votes, and the liberals will get maybe 10.000-15.000 votes in Uppsala. And Kjell need something like 2000-2500 of those.
http://folkpartiet.se/FPTemplates/PersonalPage____45511.aspx
This is what Swedish voting cards (or what is it called in English?) look like, though it is from 2002, from another city and another party, and for the kommun ("county"), not for parliament:
It's pretty unlikely he gets into parliament as he doesn't have enough time to run a campaign - he is constantly travelling and lecturing abroad when he isn't swamped by calls from top corporate CEO's and high ranking international energy officials. It seems the entire Swedish corporate world is peak oil aware because of his work.
By the way, he told me a funny thing. When ASPO was formed, there was no such thing as "peak oil". It was called "oil peak". But ASOP didn't sound right so they called it ASPO and peak oil. And since then that has been what is has been called.
And it's on the BBC today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5305950.stm
And in BBC radio as well. Kjell said he was part of that program, right in the end. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/drivenbyoil/ Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
