Learn and help others become self-sufficient: Work where you live, even if that means creating new, local, community-based enterprises, so you're not dependent on cars and oil.

S. being a major producer of agricultural products and being mostly self-sufficient, oil is a very important commodity used in agriculture production and the U. S. needs to import most of its oil.

Blessed with sunshine, watered by huge rivers and close to self-sufficiency in oil, Brazil's energy potential is indeed enormous.