Production in the oil patch is back up to where it was in 1985, “putting [Texas] in the ranks of OPEC heavy hitters like Venezuela, Kuwait and Nigeria.”
Texas alone produced more than a third of April’s U.S. production of 221 million barrels of crude oil.
Now, I suppose, all we have to do is wait for the EPA’s new jobs-squelching regs on CO2 emissions—fighting the myth of climate change, don’t you know—to depress it again.
UPDATE: And the Port of Houston surpasses NYC in exports, specifically petroleum, coal and chemicals.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 