<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Japan has few domestic energy resources"<br>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>That
 is also what the NYT quoted last week when it was announced that Japan 
is now poised to extract methane from methane hydrate deposits under the
 ocean. </font></span></font></span><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/business/global/japan-says-it-is-first-to-tap-methane-hydrate-deposit.html?hp" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/business/global/<span class="il">japan</span>-says-it-is-first-to-tap-<span class="il">methane</span>-hydrate-deposit.html?hp</a><br>
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Japan, like any country, has lots of energy resources (human, animal, vegetable<font>, wind, solar, tidal, etc.). </font>What they mean to say is that Japan has few <i><b>fossil fuels </b></i>compared to some other industrialized countries. But soon having fossil <font>fuels will be<font>come a liability, a temptation<font>, the forbidden fruit, so we really need to speedily move beyond this <font>obsolete framing of our energy prospects.</font></font></font></font></font></span></font></span>