Japanese putting all their energy into saving fuel

Japan's experience shows it is possible to grow an economy while reducing petroleum use. This will take even more discipline in the U.S. because we don't have the pressure of lacking resources to the extent that Japan does. -- Jeffrey Goettemoeller
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by Anthony Faiola, Washington Post -- 2/19/2006
"After the 1970s oil crisis, Japan 'went into a panic. We have no oil of our own, and are completely dependent on imports,' said Takako Nakamura, an official at the Global Environment Bureau of the Environment Ministry. 'That weakness changed the way we looked at energy.'
The country embarked on a major effort to wean itself off oil. Japan now imports 16 percent less oil than it did in 1973, although the economy has more than doubled. "