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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (69672)	6/17/2008 5:28:26 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 74559

The USA is the 3rd-largest oil producer in the world, after Saudi Arabia and Russia. There's plenty of acreage available to drill right now. Here in Alaska, we just opened a new field last week... Oooguruk unit produces first oil petroleumnews.com Pioneer anticipates peak gross production of 15,000 to 20,000 barrels of oil per day in 2010 from approximately 40 development wells drilled over the next three years at Oooguruk. Over the 25 to 30 year life of the field, Pioneer expects the unit to produce as much as 90 million barrels of oil. For years we handled our domestic shortfall by importing cheap foreign oil. Why drill your own when others are practically giving it away? Now that foreigners have caught on and realized how fun it is to consume energy, we'll have to make a few adjustments. Like adopting electric cars, more efficient light bulbs, Amazon's Kindle reader, etc. This could save a LOT of energy... UK to give waterless washing machine a spin news.yahoo.com Mon Jun 9, 5:49 AM ET A washing machine using as little as a cup of water for each washing cycle could go on sale to environmentally conscious Britons next year. Xeros, which has been spun out of the University of Leeds to commercialise the technology, said on Monday the new machines would use less than 2 percent of the water and energy of a conventional washing machine. Plastic chips are used to remove dirt and stains from clothes, leaving them dry and reducing energy consumption as there is no need to use a dryer after the washing cycle, Xeros said in a statement. The firm, which recently secured investment of almost 500,000 pounds from IP Group, told Reuters the price of the new machines was "not expected to be dramatically different from (conventional) washing machines." Washing machine usage has risen by 23 percent in the past 15 years. The average household uses almost 21 litres of water daily on clothes washing, 13 percent of daily household water consumption, according to Waterwise, a non-government organisation focused on decreasing water wastage. A typical washing machine uses about 35 kilograms of water for every kilogram of clothes, in addition to the power needed to heat the water and dry the clothes. There are more than two million washing machines sold in Britain annually, with a value of about 1 billion pounds, Xeros said.