As a result, the IEA predicts the US will become "all but self-sufficient" in its energy needs by around 2035.
In fact, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said it expects the US to overtake Russia as the world's biggest gas producer by 2015 and to become "all but self-sufficient" in its energy needs by about 2035.
It will be completely self-sufficient, producing all its own energy and collecting all water that would otherwise be wasted.
So the question is whether the idea of RBS and Lloyds as the people's banks will take off - whether Mr Clegg can generate sufficient popular enthusiasm for the "bank-shares-for-all" plan such that the Conservative wing of the coalition decides to ignore the logistical complexities and embrace it.
Ilze is trained as a social worker and her goal all along has been to make Employment Solutions self-sufficient, to use the revenue raised by selling services to pay for operations.
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For example, a large mutual fund company spent a lot of money encouraging its high net worth customers to use all of its automation tools and to essentially become self-sufficient investors.
All of it is travelling at several kilometres per second - sufficient velocity for even the smallest fragment to do a lot of damage if it strikes an operational space mission.
The lesson may be that fund-raising innovations are all well and good, but not sufficient.
"The entire sector is at the whim of the commission's prevailing and subjective view as to what is 'sufficient' for a school to get the all-clear, " said Mr Lyscom.
We must put all our energy and resources to fulfill the aim that we become self-sufficient in the nearest possible future.
"The length of time a person has been infected before treatment, whether the patient has been given sufficient treatment, and whether there are co-infections present, can all have a big impact on a patient's recovery, " it says.
Look, there's -- we do understand that there are -- we are not going to be able to undertake the logistical -- to overtake the logistical hurdles of dealing with moving all these resources out without a sufficient security system.
But even if it's not sufficient to cover everything -- and they acknowledge they can't analyze all the relevant factors -- that is an issue which now can be handled outside of this budget negotiations.
This implies several crucial recognitions: that intuition and experience are not sufficient to make all decisions in a way that maximizes shareholder value, that non-experimental methods are not up to the task of determining causality with sufficient reliability to guide many actions, and that experiments can be applied in practice to enough business issues to justify the costs of the capability.
"There were always odd jobs to be done - re-wiring, painting, fixing things - and I would watch and help and pick up these skills, all of which come in really handy when working in Antarctica where you have to be entirely self-sufficient, " he added.
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But some left with lingering questions about how they and their cash-strapped local governments would pay for it all, despite assurances from Governor Haley Barbour that there will be sufficient funding to rebuild the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
But the latest audit shows that at 93 factories, workers put in more than the 60-hour weekly limit prescribed by the American firm, and a third of all the plants inspected did not have sufficient measures to prevent employees suffering occupational injuries.
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