As for me, I live in Texas and have worked in the oil field for more than 20 years and the only handcuffs on drilling in Texas is the low price of oil.
Now, if you would like for us to drill more in Texas, you must also like me want to see oil priced at more than $100.00 a barrel.
Well cool! As usual, you have all the answers.
They can sell their oil and gas, then built their refineries and they are good to go as a Republic.
Since you always have the most liberal answers, I suspect that you may not like the idea, but it’s not really your call, is it?