Texas Oil Commissioner talks about possible 4 million barrels of oil per day in 2016 from Texas

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I could paint a scenario for you where we are producing 3 million more barrels per day by 2016, which would almost get us to the point where we could eliminate 60 to 70 percent of our OPEC imports,” said Texas Railroad Commissioner Barry Smitherman. “With that greater control over our own energy security , we could care less about what happens in the Strait of Hormuz” — the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf that serves as a seaway for 22 percent of the world’s oil supply.

Comment:

Do you want the USA to be more like Texas or more like California?  Texas produces oil, which works.

California produces nothing, because solar and wind doesn't work.

The question is a twist on the question that Reagan asked in 1980.