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2013-07-11 -Land of the Free

JR Would Be Proud - Texas Oil Production Now Rivals Opec Nations

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Posted by Omavimble Stalin3583 2013-07-11 00:40|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 To put Texas oil production in perspective, Perry compared it to North Dakota, the nations No. 2 oil-producing state. In November, Texas produced almost three times as much oil as North Dakota, home to the productive Bakken Shale.

As soon as the NSA digests this article, Champ will take credit for increasing domestic oil production.

Posted by Bobby 2013-07-11 06:05|| 2013-07-11 06:05|| Front Page Top

#2 unfortunately, there is a danger that Texas is ramping up govt spending faster than it should (and mainly on education)

Posted by lord garth 2013-07-11 09:15|| 2013-07-11 09:15|| Front Page Top

#3 The main reason the Champ has been unable to cripple Texas' oil production (thus far)is that there is very little federal land in Texas. When Texas joined the Union it retained its public lands as a condition of annexation.

Posted by BrujoTejano 2013-07-11 09:59|| 2013-07-11 09:59|| Front Page Top

#4 That was a long time ago. We were all much younger then. Champ will just nationalize them to protect the rare Flattened Armadillo.

Posted by Fred 2013-07-11 11:19|| 2013-07-11 11:19|| Front Page Top

#5 I thought as much, seeing the changes over the past few years as we drove south from San Antonio for book events in Goliad and Beeville. A good few years ago, many of the little towns along the roads we took were practically ghost towns - lots of boarded-up storefronts. But now they are thriving, with lots of new construction - and on the outskirts, man-camps and new RV parks, which have nothing to do with the snowbirds from northern states. Wells and new plants all over ... and acquaintances in Goliad told us last year there were families getting substantial checks for mineral rights who had been just barely scraping by, before. And the traffic in and out of the local courthouses, of people researching ownership and leases, was a like a six-lane urban highway at rush hour.
I'd just as soon the money I pay for gas go to Texans than into a terrorist-sponsoring hell-hole like Saudi Arabia.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2013-07-11 11:27|| http://www.celiahayes.com 2013-07-11 11:27|| Front Page Top

#6 "I'd ~~just as soon~~ rather the money I pay for gas go to Texans than into a terrorist-sponsoring hell-hole like Saudi Arabia."

FTFY, Sgt. Mom.

Posted by Barbara 2013-07-11 13:02|| 2013-07-11 13:02|| Front Page Top

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