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Comment by JumpCrisscross

> neither is it "karma" to have an oil-wealth state suffering

Texas is an energy state. It has lots of oil. But it also has lots of natural gas [1], solar [2], wind [3] and uranium [4], geographically overlapping and exclusive in a way that's almost preternaturally ideal for extraction and commercialization.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=14431

[2] https://www.nrel.gov/gis/solar-resource-maps.html

[3] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/wind/where-wind-power-is...

[4] https://www.eia.gov/uranium/reserves/reservemap.php

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