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Old 11-12-2007, 08:24 PM
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Or maybe:
3. Looking after alternative sources

But the solution doesn't rest with the oil companies. Here's an article on the effect of oil prices:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/09/AR2007110902573.html?hpid=topnews
I don't want to talk about the political aspects that are off topic here, but this is what they say about Japan on page 2:
In Japan, which relies on imports for nearly 100 percent of its fuel, [...] Japan has been weaning itself off oil for years. It now imports 16 percent less oil than it did in 1973, although the economy has more than doubled. Billions of dollars were invested to convert oil-reliant electricity-generation systems into ones powered by natural gas, coal, nuclear energy or alternative fuels. Japan accounts for 48 percent of the globe's solar-power generation -- compared with 15 percent in the United States.