That’s what Israel can become, according to the Washington Post, thanks to its huge reservoirs of natural gas discovered off the coast of Israel. It is “capable of supplying cheap, clean energy to its people, factories and vehicles for a generation.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-once-energy-dependent-is-new-big-gas-producer/2013/05/07/75be92f4-b410-11e2-9fb1-62de9581c946_story.html