Why Texas is Becoming America's Most Powerful State

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Summary

TLDRIl video analizza come il Texas sia il secondo stato più grande per popolazione e economia, superato solo da California e Alaska rispettivamente. Nonostante il Texas sia stato sempre in seconda posizione, negli ultimi anni ha sperimentato una rapida crescita demografica ed economica, principalmente grazie a emigrazioni da stati più costosi, come la California, e all'espansione del settore energetico e tecnologico. Dal 2020, molte grandi aziende hanno trasferito i loro quartier generali in Texas, attratte dai bassi costi di vita e da un'industria energetica in continua espansione, specialmente nel gas naturale e nel petrolio. Inoltre, le risorse rinnovabili come l'energia eolica sono in crescita. Proiezioni suggeriscono che il Texas possa superare la California per popolazione intorno agli anni 2040, mentre mantiene la seconda posizione per economia statale grazie a un PIL in rapido aumento.

Takeaways

  • 🌍 L'Alaska è lo stato americano più grande per superficie.
  • 📊 La California ha sempre avuto la popolazione più grande degli USA.
  • 🏡 I costi immobiliari in Texas sono molto più bassi rispetto alla California.
  • ⚡ Il Texas è un leader negli USA per l'energia eolica.
  • 🏢 Il trasferimento di aziende in Texas ha accelerato dopo il 2020.
  • 📈 Il Texas potrebbe diventare lo stato più popoloso intorno agli anni 2040.
  • 🌐 Il Texas contribuisce al 25% dell'export americano.
  • 💼 La crescita economica del Texas è il 39% dal 2010 al 2021.
  • 🌆 Dallas Fort Worth è una delle aree metropolitane in più rapida crescita.
  • 🔋 Il Texas produce il 43% dell'olio degli Stati Uniti.

Timeline

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    在过去几十年中，德克萨斯州在许多主要指标上一直排名美国第二，无论是在土地、人口还是经济方面。加州的人口和经济规模一直超过德克萨斯州，不过这种差距最近在缩小，因为德克萨斯州的人口增长速度远快于加州。自1960年以来，德克萨斯州从第六位迅速发展到第二位，仅次于加州。最近的趋势是德克萨斯州以更快的速度弥补与加州的人口差距。

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    由于加州自2020年以来开始失去人口，而德克萨斯州不断增加自疫情以来约884,000人，德州与加州的人口差距迅速缩小。目前，加州人口约为3900万，德州约为3120万，差距缩小到不到800万人。此外，德州在众议院中增加了两个席位，政治力量也随之增强。德州的人口增长广泛分布在各个主要城市，如达拉斯、休斯顿、圣安东尼奥和奥斯汀。

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    德克萨斯州德州三角区域经济迅速扩张，包括奥斯汀、达拉斯和休斯顿等城市，已经吸引了大量人口和企业迁移到此，目前该区域的经济增长速度显著高于全国平均水平。德克萨斯州的GDP已达到2.35万亿美元，位居全球第八，美国国内则次于加州。许多大公司总部迁至德州，使得德州成为美国经济增长的重要引擎。

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    德克萨斯州得益于众多企业迁移带来的经济繁荣，自疫情以来，美国35%的新增就业来自德州。由于地理位置优越，德州得以轻松快速地连接美洲两岸，同时与拉美相连。DFW机场在旅客运输量方面排名世界第二，使德州难以抗拒的商业中心地位得以确立。调价的生活成本和零州收入税也为德州吸引了大量新居民。

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    历史上，德州因丰富的油气资源和能源创新而闻名。20世纪初的石油发现改变了德州的经济版图，成为全美石油生产的主力。尽管20世纪中期至末期美国对外石油依赖增加，但21世纪初期，德州通过水力压裂技术大力开发页岩油和天然气资源，使其重回美国能源中心地位，并引领美国实现能源独立。

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    德州的水力压裂革命完全颠覆了美国在石油和天然气方面的依赖状况，使美国成为世界最大石油和天然气生产国。德克萨斯州凭借先进的技术、高效的基建设施，成为全球最大页岩油气资源区之一，拥有大量炼油能力和出口量，重新确立在全球能源领域的领先地位。

  • 00:30:00 - 00:37:01

    受到能源产业推动，德州经济迅速多元化发展，从科技、金融到航天等众多行业均获益，成为美国增长最快的州之一。德州不仅在传统能源领域发力，还在可再生能源上取得显著成就。如果继续保持这种增长势头，德州可能在2040年代成为美国最具影响力和人口最多的州。

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Frequently Asked Question

  • Qual è lo stato americano più grande per superficie?

    L'Alaska è lo stato americano più grande per superficie.

  • Qual è il secondo stato americano più popoloso?

    Il secondo stato americano più popoloso è il Texas.

  • Quando il Texas ha superato New York in popolazione?

    Il Texas ha superato New York in popolazione nel censimento del 2000.

  • Perché la popolazione della California ha iniziato a diminuire dopo il 2020?

    La popolazione della California ha iniziato a diminuire a causa di fattori come l'emigrazione e la mortalità causata dalla pandemia di Covid-19.

  • Quali aziende si sono trasferite in Texas dopo la pandemia del 2020?

    Alcune delle aziende che si sono trasferite in Texas includono Oracle, Tesla, Charles Schwab, HP Enterprise e Caterpillar.

  • Qual è il contributo del Texas all'export americano?

    Nel 2022, il Texas ha contributo con 486 miliardi di dollari di export.

  • Qual è il campo di energia dominante in Texas?

    Il Texas è conosciuto per l'industria del petrolio e gas ma guida anche negli Stati Uniti per l'energia eolica.

  • Cosa ha portato alla crescita dell'economia del Texas?

    La crescita dell'economia del Texas è stata guidata dall'espansione dell'industria energetica, dal trasferimento di aziende e da un costo della vita più accessibile.

  • Qual è la proiezione futura per la popolazione del Texas?

    Proiezioni indicano che il Texas potrebbe diventare lo stato più popoloso degli Stati Uniti intorno agli anni 2040.

  • Qual è la situazione immobiliare in Texas rispetto alla California?

    Il costo delle case in Texas è considerevolmente più basso rispetto alla California, con prezzi medi di case molto inferiori.

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    in nearly every major category for the
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    past several decades Texas has always
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    been ranked as only being America's
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    second largest state when counting by
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    amount of Land Texas has always remained
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    second sitting in Alaska's gigantic
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    Shadow ever since they were admitted as
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    a state back in 1959 there's even a
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    common joke in Alaska that Alaska could
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    be divided in half and then Texas would
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    get to only be the third largest
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    American state then when counting by
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    amount of people Texas has also long sat
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    in the shadow of California the most
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    recent us-wide census in 20 revealed
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    that at that time California had around
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    10 million more people than Texas and
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    correspondingly when counting the states
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    by the size of their economies Texas has
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    once again long sat in second place to
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    California's larger first but while the
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    Gap in size of land between Texas and
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    Alaska can never be filled the Gap in
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    size of people and economy between Texas
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    and California has recently been
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    narrowing rapidly because for the past
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    20 plus years Texas has been growing
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    much more quickly than California has
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    been and it's been a long time coming
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    for decades now Texas has been steadily
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    making its way climbing up the ranks of
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    America's most populous states way back
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    in 1960 Texas was only ranked sixth out
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    of America's 50 states by population
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    behind Ohio Illinois Pennsylvania
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    California and New York you see from the
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    time of the third ever American census
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    taken in 1810 to a century and a half
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    later in 1960 New York constantly
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    remained as America's longest lasting
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    most populous and most influential state
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    but the pace of American settlers moving
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    to the west and the South to States like
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    California Texas and Florida were
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    rapidly picking up pace by the mid 20th
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    century by the time when the 1970 US
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    Census rolled around a startling
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    realization was made for the first time
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    since the 1810 census taken 160 years
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    previously another state had finally
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    surpassed New York to become America's
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    newest most populous state California it
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    was the very beginning of California's
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    demographic dominance over all the other
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    American states and for the half a
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    century ever since then California has
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    continually remained in the top position
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    by 1990 roughly 12% of all Americans
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    were Californians a proportion that has
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    remained more or less constant ever
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    since but California hasn't been the
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    only state experiencing rapid growth
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    over the past half a century Texas 2o
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    continued adding more and more people
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    and was climbing through the ranks as
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    well steadily surpassing Ohio Illinois
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    and Pennsylvania until finally came the
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    2000 census which revealed that Texas
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    had suddenly become the second state
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    since 1810 to surpass the population of
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    New York for the past 23 years ever
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    since then it has continually been
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    California and Texas in the number one
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    and two position for the most populous
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    states but Texas has been spending these
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    past 23 years growing at a much faster
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    rate than California's been back in 2000
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    when Texas was confirmed by the census
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    as having America's second largest state
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    population for the first time the state
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    was home to around
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    20.85% around 13 million more than the
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    Lone Star State but over the the next 20
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    years California would only add around
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    5.6 million additional people to its
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    population to hit its 2020 census
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    designated population of around 39.5
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    million conversely Texas added in an
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    additional 8.25 million people over
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    those same 20 years in order to reach
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    its 2020 census designated population of
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    around 29.1 million that means that
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    within the first 20 years of the 21st
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    century the Gap in population between
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    the two states had narrowed from 13
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    million to just 10.4 million and then it
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    narrowing even faster after 2020 you see
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    year after year for California's entire
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    history since being admitted as a state
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    it knew nothing other than growth and
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    more people calling at home with every
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    passing year but beginning in 2020 after
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    the covid-19 pandemic struck the state
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    along with the rest of the world the
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    previously Unthinkable began to happen
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    for the first time ever California began
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    to actually lose people in the 2-year
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    time frame between April of 2020 right
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    after the pandemic gripped the country
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    to July of 2022 the California state
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    population declined by an estimated
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    500,000 people this was due to a variety
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    of factors as around 700,000 previous
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    California residents left the state over
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    those two years either by moving
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    somewhere else or dying while only
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    around 2 200,000 new residents moved
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    into the state to take their places this
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    Exodus of people from California in the
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    early 2020s was indicative of the fact
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    that for the first time in its more than
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    170e State history California further
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    lost an amount of its enormous political
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    power by losing one of its seats in the
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    population-based US House of
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    Representatives getting downgraded from
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    53 representatives to only 52 further
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    meaning one less Californian vote in the
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    Electoral College for president but the
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    situation in Texas since the covid-19
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    pandemic began could not be any more
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    different over that same 2-year period
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    between April of 2020 and July of 2022
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    the Texan state population increased by
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    88400
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    th000 people more than the entire
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    population of San Francisco proper
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    relative to California's loss of around
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    500,000 people the Texan state
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    population narrowed its Gap with
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    California in only 2 years in nearly the
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    same amount it took an entire decade to
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    accomplish beforehand as of now in 2023
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    California's population is estimated to
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    be sitting at around 39 million people
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    even while Texas is projected to be
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    sitting at around 31.2 million a total
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    difference now of fewer than 8 million
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    people and if the current trends
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    continue on as they have been then Texas
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    may end up even eclipsing California's
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    population as America's newest most
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    populous state by sometime in the 2040s
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    the growth in Texas's population has
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    also resulted in an accompanying growth
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    in the state's political power
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    conversely to California Texas gained
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    not only one but two additional seats in
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    the population-based House of
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    Representatives from 36 up to 38 roughly
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    15% of the number of electoral votes
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    required now to win the American
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    presidency and perhaps most remarkably
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    the population explosion in Texas has
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    been very well spread out across the
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    state as well it seems like pretty much
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    everywhere in Texas has been booming
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    recently Dallas Fort Worth or DFW a
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    large Urban metropolitan area in the
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    north of Texas has added nearly 1 and A2
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    million people to its population just
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    since 2010 with around 7.8 million
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    people now calling it home DFW is the
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    fourth largest metropolitan area in the
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    entire United States with more people
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    than the entirety of Washington state
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    and perhaps even more remarkably DFW is
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    likely all set to surpass greater
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    Chicago as America's third largest
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    metropolitan area within only a decade
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    from now sometime in the mid 2030s at
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    which point it will only remain behind
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    Los Angeles in New York City but DFW is
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    far from the only urban area of Texas
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    that has been booming with people
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    recently Millions more have moved to the
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    state's other major cities in Houston
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    San Antonio and Austin in an emerging
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    densely populated Mega region that is
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    being called the Texas triangle the
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    triangle only takes up less than a
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    quarter of Texas's total land area and
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    is roughly comparable in size to the
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    state of Georgia and yet it already
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    contains a population of more than 22
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    million people or about three out of
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    every four Texans it contains America's
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    4th 7th 9th 11th and 13th largest cities
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    and is the fourth most heavily populated
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    Mega region in the United States behind
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    Southern California the Northeast
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    megalopolis and the Great Lakes but by
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    sometime in the 2030s the Texas
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    triangle's population is projected to
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    equalize with Southern California and
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    unlike those other two largest regions
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    in the Northeast and the Great Lakes the
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    Texas triangle is mostly all contained
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    within just a single State's borders now
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    there are ultimately many factors for
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    why so many people have been moving to
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    Texas and the Texas triangle
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    specifically but one of the largest has
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    been the rapidly expanding Texas economy
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    the huge number of jobs that is created
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    and the relatively affordable cost of
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    living and doing business in the state
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    you see between 2010 and 2021 the
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    population of Texas grew by 18% but the
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    economy of Texas grew by a whopping 39%
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    over that same time period a rate that
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    was approximately 1 and a half times
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    faster than the US national average rate
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    of economic growth over the same time
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    now as of 2023 the Texas state gross
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    domestic product or GDP stands at a
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    towering 2.35 trillion US dollar meaning
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    that if Texas were an independent
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    country it would be the world's eighth
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    largest economy when measured by nom GDP
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    ahead of Heavy Hitters like Italy and
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    Canada for now though the Texan economy
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    still sits beneath California's gigantic
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    economy of 3.6 trillion but if Texas can
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    continue growing its population base at
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    a faster clip than California as it has
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    been for the past 23 years now for how
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    much longer will California Remain the
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    top US state economy there's already
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    plenty of signs that it might not be
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    very long at all Texas already
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    dramatically leads the 50 US states in
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    terms of exports in 2022 Texas exported
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    a whopping
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    $486 billion worth of products about a
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    quarter of all of America's exports
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    combined in an amount that was higher
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    than all of the exports of California
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    and New York put together and part of
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    the reason why droves of people have
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    been relocating to Texas recently has
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    been because of the droves of companies
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    relocating to the state before them in
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    just the few short years since the
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    covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020
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    about 140 major companies have relocated
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    their headquarters to Texas and more
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    than 40% of those companies relocated
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    from California some of the biggest
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    companies that did so since 2020 that
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    got the biggest headlines included
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    Oracle and Tesla which relocated from
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    California to Austin Charles Schwab
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    which relocated from California to DFW
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    hilet Packer and Enterprise which
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    relocated from California to Houston
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    caterpillar that relocated from Illinois
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    to DFW and McLaren North America which
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    also left New York for DFW and besides
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    for all these corporate headquarters
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    relocating to Texas since 2020 other
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    major companies have begun to
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    significantly increase their office
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    presences in the loan Star State as well
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    Apple's new $1 billion campus in Austin
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    will become the company's second largest
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    corporate office space in the world when
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    completed with more than 5,000 employees
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    remaining only behind their primary
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    headquarters in Apple Park in copertino
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    California Google and meta each likewise
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    significantly increase their office
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    spaces in downtown Austin as well with
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    thousands of new employees a piece and
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    shiny new office Towers before the tech
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    slowdown caught up to them in late 2022
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    well Goldman Sachs the second largest
  • 00:10:26
    Investment Bank in the world announced
  • 00:10:28
    that they would be constructing their
  • 00:10:29
    their new second largest office bace in
  • 00:10:31
    the world in Downtown Dallas they will
  • 00:10:33
    house 5,000 of their own employees when
  • 00:10:36
    completed which will make Dallas the
  • 00:10:38
    company's second largest Center of
  • 00:10:39
    operations after their primary HQ in New
  • 00:10:42
    York in part because of all these
  • 00:10:44
    widescale corporate relocations and
  • 00:10:46
    expansions to Texas the Lone Star State
  • 00:10:48
    has been responsible for an absolutely
  • 00:10:50
    astonishing
  • 00:10:52
    35% of all the new jobs created in
  • 00:10:55
    America since the covid-19 pandemic
  • 00:10:57
    began in February of 2020 and to both
  • 00:10:59
    corporations and people Texas offers a
  • 00:11:02
    lot of attractions for one the Texas
  • 00:11:04
    triangle sits at roughly the center
  • 00:11:06
    point of the contiguous 48 United States
  • 00:11:08
    enabling easy and Rapid air travel to
  • 00:11:10
    both American coasts and to Latin
  • 00:11:12
    America since 2021 DFW airport has
  • 00:11:15
    ranked as the second busiest airport in
  • 00:11:17
    the entire world by Passenger traffic
  • 00:11:19
    with 193 direct domestic destinations
  • 00:11:22
    and 67 direct International destinations
  • 00:11:24
    as far away as Sydney Dubai and DOA it
  • 00:11:26
    is also the primary hub for American
  • 00:11:28
    Airlines lines the largest airline in
  • 00:11:31
    the world when measured by Fleet size
  • 00:11:32
    and passengers carried and then DFW
  • 00:11:35
    Airport isn't even the only major
  • 00:11:36
    airport in town There's also Dallas Love
  • 00:11:39
    Field nearby with another 71 direct
  • 00:11:41
    flight destinations and it's the primary
  • 00:11:43
    hub for Southwest Airlines the largest
  • 00:11:45
    lowcost carrier in the world and the
  • 00:11:47
    largest carrier of domestic passengers
  • 00:11:49
    in America and then even further there's
  • 00:11:51
    the perau field Fort Worth Alliance
  • 00:11:53
    Airport which is primarily focused on
  • 00:11:55
    cargo operations and is one of America's
  • 00:11:57
    largest acting as a regional hub for
  • 00:11:59
    FedEx Express and a focus City for
  • 00:12:01
    Amazon air all of these advantages to
  • 00:12:03
    cheap easy and fast air travel to pretty
  • 00:12:05
    much anywhere else in the country or
  • 00:12:07
    even the world makes DFW a highly
  • 00:12:10
    strategic Center for businesses with
  • 00:12:11
    national or Global business interests to
  • 00:12:13
    relocate their operations too but it's
  • 00:12:15
    far from Texas's only Advantage at
  • 00:12:18
    attracting companies and people the
  • 00:12:19
    state is only one of a few that has a 0%
  • 00:12:22
    state income tax in 0% capital gains tax
  • 00:12:25
    while land for corporations and housing
  • 00:12:27
    for people reach significantly less
  • 00:12:29
    expensive than on either of the American
  • 00:12:31
    coasts as of March 2023 and according to
  • 00:12:34
    realtor.com the median listing price for
  • 00:12:36
    a home in San Diego was $925,000
  • 00:12:39
    $1.1 million in Los Angeles $1.25
  • 00:12:42
    million in San Jose and 1.3 million do
  • 00:12:45
    in San Francisco conversely in the Texas
  • 00:12:48
    triangle region the same data from the
  • 00:12:50
    same Source in the same time shows a
  • 00:12:52
    median listing price for a home in
  • 00:12:53
    Houston is just
  • 00:12:54
    $340,000 in Fort Worth is
  • 00:12:57
    $350,000 in Dallas is $400 $30,000 and
  • 00:13:00
    in Austin at
  • 00:13:01
    $619,000 meaning that home prices in
  • 00:13:03
    Houston and Fort Worth are generally
  • 00:13:05
    around four times less than in San
  • 00:13:07
    Francisco while even in Austin Texas's
  • 00:13:10
    most expensive city there's still nearly
  • 00:13:12
    half the price as seen in Los Angeles
  • 00:13:15
    Austin in particular has seen a
  • 00:13:17
    skyrocketing in the cost of living over
  • 00:13:18
    the past decade as major tech companies
  • 00:13:21
    from California have relocated and
  • 00:13:22
    expanded their operations there back in
  • 00:13:24
    2010 just 13 years ago the median home
  • 00:13:27
    price in Austin was less than a third of
  • 00:13:29
    what it currently is today and this was
  • 00:13:32
    the tallest building in the city at just
  • 00:13:34
    683 ft tall now the city is not just one
  • 00:13:38
    but two super tall skyscrapers under
  • 00:13:40
    construction that will Tower at 1,22 FT
  • 00:13:44
    and 1,35 ft High respectively once
  • 00:13:47
    completed they will become the new
  • 00:13:49
    tallest Towers in the state and the
  • 00:13:51
    taller of them the Wilson Tower will
  • 00:13:53
    become the tallest all Residential
  • 00:13:55
    Building anywhere in North America
  • 00:13:57
    outside of Manhattan you see the various
  • 00:14:00
    different major cities in Texas all have
  • 00:14:02
    various different economic strengths
  • 00:14:03
    today Tech is concentrated around Austin
  • 00:14:06
    Finance is centered around Dallas energy
  • 00:14:08
    is based around Houston while Aerospace
  • 00:14:10
    Agriculture and other Industries are
  • 00:14:11
    well spread out all across the state in
  • 00:14:14
    total there are now 54 of America's
  • 00:14:16
    Fortune 500 companies that are
  • 00:14:18
    headquartered in Texas more than in
  • 00:14:20
    California or indeed in any other state
  • 00:14:23
    and while there are many factors that
  • 00:14:24
    led Texas to this leading business
  • 00:14:26
    position that I've already discussed the
  • 00:14:28
    most important of all and the biggest
  • 00:14:30
    reason for Texas's increasing position
  • 00:14:32
    as America's most important state are
  • 00:14:34
    there enormous oil and gas resources
  • 00:14:36
    their energy industry and their recent
  • 00:14:39
    technological innovations because if
  • 00:14:41
    there's anything that Texas has long
  • 00:14:42
    been synonymous with it is the oil
  • 00:14:44
    industry an industry that since the
  • 00:14:46
    2010s has become perhaps America's most
  • 00:14:49
    geopolitically valuable domestic asset
  • 00:14:51
    the oil industry in Texas dates back to
  • 00:14:53
    the turn of the 20th century in 1901
  • 00:14:56
    back then the whole State's population
  • 00:14:58
    was barely more than than 3 million
  • 00:14:59
    people it was completely rural without
  • 00:15:01
    any major cities to speak of and the
  • 00:15:03
    largest industries were simply Timber
  • 00:15:04
    and agriculture but in 1901 a discovery
  • 00:15:07
    was made in the town of Bowmont in East
  • 00:15:09
    Texas that would change the destiny of
  • 00:15:11
    Texas and of America forever the largest
  • 00:15:13
    oil field ever discovered in the world
  • 00:15:16
    up to that point though its size has
  • 00:15:18
    long since been eclipsed by many future
  • 00:15:21
    discoveries the Discovery at Bowmont set
  • 00:15:23
    off an oil frenzy across the whole of
  • 00:15:25
    Southeast Texas but it soon became
  • 00:15:27
    apparent that that wasn't even the only
  • 00:15:29
    location in the state that had a lot of
  • 00:15:31
    oil additional huge oil finds were
  • 00:15:33
    suddenly being made in the south of the
  • 00:15:35
    state in the north of the state and then
  • 00:15:37
    in the 1920s came the biggest find of
  • 00:15:39
    them all in the west of the state in an
  • 00:15:41
    area that would later become known as
  • 00:15:43
    The perian Basin within less than half a
  • 00:15:45
    century of the initial huge discovery of
  • 00:15:47
    oil in the state in 1901 to the end of
  • 00:15:49
    World War II Texas had emerged as the
  • 00:15:52
    dominant producer of oil in America and
  • 00:15:54
    America had emerged as by far the
  • 00:15:57
    world's largest producer of oil and with
  • 00:15:59
    that came immense geopolitical power and
  • 00:16:02
    influence during World War II the United
  • 00:16:05
    States provided nearly six out of every
  • 00:16:07
    seven barrels of oil that the Allies
  • 00:16:09
    collectively used fighting against the
  • 00:16:10
    Axis powers and Texas provided the Lion
  • 00:16:13
    Share of them in only 30 years between
  • 00:16:16
    1900 and 1930 the populations more than
  • 00:16:19
    five towns in Texas exploded by more
  • 00:16:22
    than 5 100% and became the fastest
  • 00:16:25
    growing cities in America during the
  • 00:16:27
    entire early 20th Cent Century as
  • 00:16:29
    Millions came to strike their Fortunes
  • 00:16:32
    in only 30 years from the initial big
  • 00:16:34
    discovery of oil in Bowmont the whole
  • 00:16:36
    state population roughly doubled and by
  • 00:16:38
    the end of World War II Texas had
  • 00:16:40
    transformed from a predominantly rural
  • 00:16:43
    State into a heavily industrialized one
  • 00:16:45
    with many of America's largest cities
  • 00:16:48
    and for all intents and purposes Texas
  • 00:16:50
    was essentially a contained Petro state
  • 00:16:52
    within the United States because the oil
  • 00:16:55
    industry effectively became the whole
  • 00:16:57
    economy but shortly after the second
  • 00:16:59
    world war Texas and America's dominant
  • 00:17:01
    position in the global oil industry
  • 00:17:03
    steadily began diminishing as the
  • 00:17:05
    post-war economy boomed and more
  • 00:17:06
    Americans began moving out away from
  • 00:17:08
    cities and into heavily car dependent
  • 00:17:10
    suburbs the demand for oil in the
  • 00:17:12
    country shortly began to outpace
  • 00:17:14
    America's own production in 1946 the
  • 00:17:17
    first large-scale shipment of oil from
  • 00:17:18
    the Middle East specifically from Kuwait
  • 00:17:21
    arrived on America Shores to help meet
  • 00:17:23
    the growing Demand by 1948 the country
  • 00:17:26
    had tipped into being a net importer of
  • 00:17:28
    oil for the very first time and
  • 00:17:30
    America's dependence on outside sources
  • 00:17:32
    of oil would only continue growing ever
  • 00:17:34
    greater for decades and decades the
  • 00:17:37
    1970s showed everyone in the United
  • 00:17:39
    States how geopolitically vulnerable
  • 00:17:41
    this new situation made the country by
  • 00:17:43
    1970 American oil production had peaked
  • 00:17:46
    and by 1972 an overwhelming 83% of
  • 00:17:50
    American oil imports were coming from
  • 00:17:53
    the oil rich countries of the Middle
  • 00:17:55
    East then due to American support for
  • 00:17:58
    Israel against the the combined armies
  • 00:17:59
    of Egypt and Syria during the 1973 yam
  • 00:18:02
    kaper War OPEC the organization of
  • 00:18:05
    petroleum exporting countries decided to
  • 00:18:07
    embargo the United States and other
  • 00:18:09
    Western allies of all of their supplies
  • 00:18:11
    the price for gasoline in America
  • 00:18:13
    subsequently skyrocketed more than
  • 00:18:16
    fourfold as long lines at gas stations
  • 00:18:19
    became the norm for everyone America's
  • 00:18:21
    Home economy largely based around fossil
  • 00:18:23
    fuels as an energy source was vulnerable
  • 00:18:25
    to being attacked by outside Powers who
  • 00:18:27
    controlled most of the World Supply and
  • 00:18:30
    so as America's own domestic oil
  • 00:18:32
    production kept decreasing but demand
  • 00:18:34
    kept increasing America's foreign policy
  • 00:18:36
    was being forced into becoming
  • 00:18:38
    increasingly concerned on geopolitical
  • 00:18:40
    events taking place far away from home
  • 00:18:42
    in the Middle East and the oil Rich
  • 00:18:44
    Persian Gulf where more than half of the
  • 00:18:46
    world's known reserves of oil were
  • 00:18:48
    located by the end of 1973 president
  • 00:18:51
    Richard Nixon vowed that America's
  • 00:18:53
    primary goal moving forward would be to
  • 00:18:55
    achieve complete energy independence
  • 00:18:57
    from the rest of the world within a
  • 00:18:59
    decade so that a situation like the Arab
  • 00:19:01
    Oil Embargo could never threaten the
  • 00:19:03
    United States economy ever again it
  • 00:19:05
    would end up taking well over 40 years
  • 00:19:08
    to actually more or less do so and in
  • 00:19:10
    the meantime things weren't looking very
  • 00:19:12
    good because by 1974 the gigantic perian
  • 00:19:15
    Basin in Texas had reached its peak
  • 00:19:18
    production and was providing nearly 1/4
  • 00:19:20
    of America's entire supply of oil but
  • 00:19:23
    from then on production in even the
  • 00:19:25
    perian began steadily declining as the
  • 00:19:27
    conventionally easy to access oil and
  • 00:19:29
    large pools beneath the surface began
  • 00:19:31
    running out then the 1979 Islamic
  • 00:19:33
    revolution in Iran transformed that
  • 00:19:35
    country from one of America's greatest
  • 00:19:37
    allies to one of its greatest enemies
  • 00:19:40
    and therefore removed access to Iranian
  • 00:19:42
    oil reserves from America's economy
  • 00:19:44
    further constraining America's Supply
  • 00:19:46
    but somewhat paradoxically Texas
  • 00:19:48
    momentarily benefited tremendously from
  • 00:19:50
    the rise in global oil prices across the
  • 00:19:52
    1970s as production in the state was
  • 00:19:54
    still pretty high and oil was the
  • 00:19:56
    state's primary industry the skylines of
  • 00:19:59
    Dallas and Houston boomed dramatically
  • 00:20:01
    during this time period but then in the
  • 00:20:03
    1980s the price of oil finally fell out
  • 00:20:05
    and collapsed and with its fairly
  • 00:20:07
    undiversified economy at the time Texas
  • 00:20:09
    fell into a deep oil induced recession
  • 00:20:12
    alongside it that spread throughout the
  • 00:20:13
    whole State's economy ambitious
  • 00:20:15
    buildings that were planned to be
  • 00:20:16
    constructed during the ' 80s in cities
  • 00:20:17
    like Dallas and Houston had to be
  • 00:20:19
    abruptly cancelled as the oil money
  • 00:20:21
    began running out like this very
  • 00:20:23
    ambitious Art Deco inspired aund Story
  • 00:20:26
    Tower that was planned for Dallas in
  • 00:20:28
    the'80s
  • 00:20:28
    but was never even started by 2005 it
  • 00:20:31
    had been more than 30 years since
  • 00:20:33
    Richard Nixon claimed America would be
  • 00:20:35
    fully energy independent within a decade
  • 00:20:37
    but 30 years on America was importing
  • 00:20:39
    more oil from abroad than it ever had
  • 00:20:42
    before in its entire history 60% of
  • 00:20:45
    America's oil consumption was coming
  • 00:20:46
    from imported sources from abroad though
  • 00:20:48
    by this point only 20% of those Imports
  • 00:20:51
    were still coming from the Middle East
  • 00:20:53
    but nonetheless nearly everyone back
  • 00:20:55
    then believed that America's oil imports
  • 00:20:57
    would only continue growing even higher
  • 00:21:00
    by 2007 oil production within the peran
  • 00:21:02
    in Texas had hit its alltime low and
  • 00:21:05
    nearly everybody believed that the
  • 00:21:07
    United States was doomed to be the
  • 00:21:09
    world's largest importer of oil and
  • 00:21:11
    natural gas indefinitely with a chronic
  • 00:21:14
    overdependence on foreign suppliers who
  • 00:21:16
    could potentially weaponize their energy
  • 00:21:18
    resources to harm the country like
  • 00:21:20
    during the Arab Oil Embargo but then as
  • 00:21:23
    if out of nowhere a technological
  • 00:21:25
    revolution in the oil and gas industry
  • 00:21:27
    beginning in Texas started Ed to quickly
  • 00:21:29
    change everything just like it had
  • 00:21:32
    originally done a century previously
  • 00:21:34
    back in 1901 petroleum engineers and
  • 00:21:37
    geologists working in the Barnett Shale
  • 00:21:39
    region of North Texas were the first who
  • 00:21:41
    managed to put together two previously
  • 00:21:43
    unrelated Technologies to produce a
  • 00:21:45
    revolutionary and unconventional new
  • 00:21:47
    result they had combined horizontal well
  • 00:21:50
    drilling with hydraulic fracturing and
  • 00:21:52
    in doing so came up with a new if
  • 00:21:54
    slightly misleadingly labeled technique
  • 00:21:57
    called fracking tracking ultimately
  • 00:21:59
    enabled energy companies to do what was
  • 00:22:01
    previously believed to be impossible
  • 00:22:03
    economically Harvest petroleum resources
  • 00:22:05
    like crude oil and natural gas out of
  • 00:22:07
    non-porous sedimentary shale rock
  • 00:22:09
    deposited hundreds of millions of years
  • 00:22:11
    ago beneath the surface of oceans and as
  • 00:22:14
    it so turned out Texas was once covered
  • 00:22:17
    by an ocean many hundreds of millions of
  • 00:22:19
    years ago and so the state consequently
  • 00:22:21
    had a massive massive amount of
  • 00:22:24
    petroleum Rich shale rock deposits
  • 00:22:26
    beneath its surface right for the new
  • 00:22:29
    fracking technique to exploit from the
  • 00:22:31
    Barnet Shale region in north Texas tens
  • 00:22:34
    of thousands of unconventional fracking
  • 00:22:36
    Wells began suddenly getting drilled all
  • 00:22:38
    across other newly discovered Shale
  • 00:22:39
    plays like the Eagle Ford sedimentary
  • 00:22:42
    Basin running through South and
  • 00:22:43
    Southeastern Texas and then all eyeses
  • 00:22:46
    began once again turning back towards
  • 00:22:48
    the gigantic perian Bas an over in West
  • 00:22:51
    Texas in 2012 the first successful
  • 00:22:54
    horizontal Shale well was drilled in the
  • 00:22:55
    peran and the fracking boom had come to
  • 00:22:58
    what had one been America's greatest oil
  • 00:23:00
    field and as it turned out the peran 2
  • 00:23:03
    was absolutely covered with previously
  • 00:23:06
    inaccessible petroleum Rich Shale rocks
  • 00:23:08
    beneath the surface as a result in a
  • 00:23:11
    period of just 7 years from 2007 when
  • 00:23:13
    the peran hit its lowest point of
  • 00:23:15
    production to 2014 peran oil production
  • 00:23:18
    more than doubled from 850,000 barrels a
  • 00:23:21
    day to more than 2 million and it was
  • 00:23:24
    once again accounting for a full quarter
  • 00:23:27
    of America's entire production C of oil
  • 00:23:29
    as it turned out fracking revealed that
  • 00:23:31
    Texas contains several of the largest
  • 00:23:33
    oil and gas fields that have ever been
  • 00:23:35
    discovered anywhere in the world the
  • 00:23:37
    spraberry and wolf Camp field in the
  • 00:23:39
    peran is generally now regarded as the
  • 00:23:41
    second largest oil field on the planet
  • 00:23:43
    behind only Saudi Arabia's largest oil
  • 00:23:46
    field at gavar the Eagle Ford is now
  • 00:23:49
    regarded as the world's fifth largest
  • 00:23:50
    oil field ahead of the summit lore field
  • 00:23:52
    in Siberia the largest of all of
  • 00:23:54
    Russia's oil fields and even better the
  • 00:23:57
    massive Tex and Shale oil and gas fields
  • 00:23:59
    are all perhaps the most strategically
  • 00:24:01
    well-located of all the major petroleum
  • 00:24:04
    reserves on the planet these aren't the
  • 00:24:06
    massive oil and gas fields of Saudi
  • 00:24:08
    Arabia that are all located in the very
  • 00:24:10
    sparsely populated deserts of the east
  • 00:24:12
    of the country and hemmed in by the
  • 00:24:14
    major Maritime choke points of the
  • 00:24:15
    straight of Hormuz the Babel MB and the
  • 00:24:17
    Suez Canal with major geopolitical
  • 00:24:20
    threats immediately nearby making Saudi
  • 00:24:22
    oil and gas challenging to build
  • 00:24:24
    infrastructure around that is required
  • 00:24:26
    to get it out to World Markets these
  • 00:24:28
    like aren't the massive oil and gas
  • 00:24:30
    fields of Russia all of which are
  • 00:24:31
    located deep within the interior of
  • 00:24:33
    sparsely populated Siberia that is
  • 00:24:35
    similarly difficult to build
  • 00:24:37
    infrastructure to and from that is
  • 00:24:38
    required to get them out to the World
  • 00:24:40
    Market instead the massive Texan Shale
  • 00:24:43
    oil and gas Fields among the largest
  • 00:24:45
    anywhere in the world can be found
  • 00:24:47
    almost precisely where many of America's
  • 00:24:50
    largest cities and most advanced
  • 00:24:51
    infrastructure had already been built
  • 00:24:54
    overlap the map of Texan Shale oil and
  • 00:24:56
    gas Fields with Texan population density
  • 00:24:58
    and remember the 22 million people that
  • 00:25:00
    live within the Texas triangle the
  • 00:25:02
    Barnett Shale region largely runs over
  • 00:25:04
    Dallas Fort Worth the Eagle Ford spans
  • 00:25:06
    right through the center of the triangle
  • 00:25:08
    and runs right nearby to San Antonio
  • 00:25:10
    Austin and Houston and the mighty peran
  • 00:25:12
    Basin is only a bit further to the west
  • 00:25:14
    of the triangle and is well connected to
  • 00:25:16
    it by Highway and rail they can take the
  • 00:25:18
    basin's oil and gas directly to the
  • 00:25:20
    Texan Coast for easy immediate
  • 00:25:23
    geopolitical risk-free access to the
  • 00:25:25
    Gulf of Mexico and the world's oceans
  • 00:25:27
    from there assume assuming of course
  • 00:25:29
    that Cuba isn't under the control of a
  • 00:25:31
    major hostile foreign power which has
  • 00:25:33
    from time to time been the case before
  • 00:25:35
    but not currently within just 5 years
  • 00:25:38
    from 2009 to 2014 the fracking
  • 00:25:41
    Revolution along with Texas's geology
  • 00:25:43
    and the location of its Mighty Shale
  • 00:25:45
    reserves nearby to Major infrastructure
  • 00:25:46
    links and the ocean all resulted in
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    Texan oil production more than tripling
  • 00:25:52
    and within time it would accelerate even
  • 00:25:54
    faster by today in 2023 the fracking
  • 00:25:57
    Revolution has enabled Texas alone to
  • 00:26:00
    become the producer of
  • 00:26:02
    43% of America's entire Nationwide
  • 00:26:05
    production of oil and 25% of America's
  • 00:26:08
    production of natural gas far higher
  • 00:26:11
    amounts than any other single state has
  • 00:26:13
    been capable of achieving Texas now
  • 00:26:15
    produces even more oil than Iraq and if
  • 00:26:18
    it were an independent country it would
  • 00:26:20
    be the world's fourth largest producer
  • 00:26:22
    barely behind the rest of the United
  • 00:26:24
    States and then Russia and Saudi Arabia
  • 00:26:26
    Texas further produces more natural gas
  • 00:26:28
    now than either China or Qatar and were
  • 00:26:31
    it to be its own country it would
  • 00:26:32
    possess the fourth highest production of
  • 00:26:34
    natural gas on the planet just barely
  • 00:26:37
    behind Iran and then even further Texas
  • 00:26:40
    controls the largest amount of crude oil
  • 00:26:41
    refineries out of any US state as well
  • 00:26:44
    and thus possesses the largest ability
  • 00:26:45
    out of any of the states to refine crude
  • 00:26:47
    oil into finished products like gasoline
  • 00:26:49
    Diesel and jet fuel as of 2021 there are
  • 00:26:52
    a total of 31 petroleum refineries in
  • 00:26:55
    Texas largely concentrated around the
  • 00:26:57
    Gulf Coast that collectively account for
  • 00:26:59
    about a third of America's entire crude
  • 00:27:01
    oil refining capacity and that grants
  • 00:27:04
    Texas the ability to refine more oil
  • 00:27:07
    than India and every other country in
  • 00:27:08
    the world besides for Russia China and
  • 00:27:10
    the rest of the United States as a
  • 00:27:13
    result the second Texas oil boom that
  • 00:27:15
    began in the early 2010s has proven to
  • 00:27:17
    be nearly as massive a development for
  • 00:27:19
    the state as the first oil boom was in
  • 00:27:21
    the early 20th century and has been a
  • 00:27:23
    further primary factor in the state's
  • 00:27:25
    recent extraordinary growth rate and
  • 00:27:28
    even better this time around when the
  • 00:27:30
    price of oil inevitably comes down again
  • 00:27:32
    in the future the state's economy is
  • 00:27:34
    well Diversified enough to weather
  • 00:27:35
    through the storm unlike in the past the
  • 00:27:38
    Texan Shale boom along with smaller but
  • 00:27:40
    still significant Shale booms in other
  • 00:27:42
    states like North Dakota has ended up
  • 00:27:43
    completely crushing everybody's
  • 00:27:46
    predictions back from the 2000s about
  • 00:27:48
    the United States being doomed to become
  • 00:27:50
    the world's largest importer of oil and
  • 00:27:52
    gas quite to the contrary Texan oil and
  • 00:27:55
    gas production heavily contributed to
  • 00:27:57
    the United States finally regaining the
  • 00:27:59
    title of the world's largest oil
  • 00:28:01
    producer from Saudi Arabia in 2018 a
  • 00:28:04
    title that America had lost more than 40
  • 00:28:06
    years previously and a title it still
  • 00:28:09
    would not have without Texas or fracking
  • 00:28:12
    by 2015 Texas in the United States were
  • 00:28:14
    already doing what had previously been
  • 00:28:16
    thought of as impossible that December a
  • 00:28:19
    tanker in Corpus Christie loaded up with
  • 00:28:21
    crude oil drilled from the Shale in the
  • 00:28:23
    Eagle Ford and set sail for France
  • 00:28:26
    representing the first major export Port
  • 00:28:28
    of us oil abroad since the 1970s the
  • 00:28:31
    United States had suddenly returned back
  • 00:28:33
    to the world stage again as the largest
  • 00:28:36
    oil and gas power in the world and the
  • 00:28:38
    reverberations shook across the globe as
  • 00:28:41
    the United States slowed down its
  • 00:28:42
    Imports of oil and gas from abroad
  • 00:28:44
    America's trade deficit was also rapidly
  • 00:28:46
    declining by 2019 the United States had
  • 00:28:49
    dramatically slashed down on its net oil
  • 00:28:51
    imports from the peak of 60% of total
  • 00:28:53
    Supply back in 2005 to less than 3% of
  • 00:28:56
    total Supply and then is the United
  • 00:28:58
    States became by far the world's largest
  • 00:29:00
    producer of natural gas of which Texas
  • 00:29:02
    produces a quarter of the country gained
  • 00:29:05
    the ability to use this abundant natural
  • 00:29:07
    gas to produce some of the cheapest
  • 00:29:08
    electricity and cheapest chemicals seen
  • 00:29:10
    anywhere in the developed World
  • 00:29:12
    America's seemingly bottomless supply of
  • 00:29:14
    natural gas established by fracking
  • 00:29:16
    after the 2010s and its reliable
  • 00:29:18
    electricity grid compared to its peers
  • 00:29:20
    has become another primary factor in
  • 00:29:22
    encouraging manufacturing to relocate
  • 00:29:24
    back to the United States and
  • 00:29:26
    specifically Manufacturing and chemical
  • 00:29:28
    firms have been largely relocating their
  • 00:29:30
    operations from abroad to the gulf coast
  • 00:29:32
    region around Texas and Louisiana where
  • 00:29:35
    the gas and electricity rates are so
  • 00:29:37
    insanely cheap since they're right by
  • 00:29:39
    the sources of the gas and from where
  • 00:29:41
    the ability to export finished products
  • 00:29:43
    to the rest of America and the world is
  • 00:29:45
    so good that even some Chinese companies
  • 00:29:47
    have relocated their manufacturing
  • 00:29:49
    operations there because the cheap
  • 00:29:50
    electricity and Cheap shipping costs
  • 00:29:52
    outweigh the relatively cheaper Chinese
  • 00:29:54
    labor and then of course there are the
  • 00:29:57
    geopolitical advant manages to America
  • 00:29:59
    once again producing the highest amount
  • 00:30:00
    of oil and gas in the world following
  • 00:30:03
    the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early
  • 00:30:04
    2022 the European Union acted quickly to
  • 00:30:07
    slash its Imports of Russian oil and gas
  • 00:30:09
    in order to deny the Kremlin funding
  • 00:30:11
    that would help to pay for its War
  • 00:30:13
    Machine the Shale revolution in Texas
  • 00:30:15
    and the United States helped the
  • 00:30:16
    European Union do this in more ways than
  • 00:30:19
    one for starters were it not for the
  • 00:30:21
    Shale Revolution the United States would
  • 00:30:23
    still almost certainly be the world's
  • 00:30:25
    largest importer of oil and gas and
  • 00:30:27
    would therefore directly competing for
  • 00:30:29
    the limited outside world supplies with
  • 00:30:31
    Europe right now meaning that the price
  • 00:30:33
    Europe would have had to pay to replace
  • 00:30:35
    Russia's oil and gas would be far higher
  • 00:30:38
    than it really was but because of the
  • 00:30:40
    Shale Revolution the United States was
  • 00:30:42
    not only hardly importing any oil and
  • 00:30:44
    gas from the Middle East or elsewhere at
  • 00:30:46
    all and thus was better freeing up those
  • 00:30:48
    resources for Europe but it was also
  • 00:30:50
    producing enough to export to Europe
  • 00:30:52
    itself since the Russian invasion Texan
  • 00:30:55
    and American Oil and Gas have been
  • 00:30:57
    blowing in container ships across the
  • 00:30:59
    Atlantic to Europe in a deluge that
  • 00:31:02
    resembles the Allied Supply effort
  • 00:31:04
    during World War II as a result America
  • 00:31:07
    suddenly displaced even Qatar as the
  • 00:31:09
    world's largest exporter of liquefied
  • 00:31:11
    natural gas this year in 2023 as it
  • 00:31:14
    found itself the second largest provider
  • 00:31:16
    of gas to the European Union at 20% of
  • 00:31:19
    their total Imports only behind Norway
  • 00:31:22
    in first at 31% the gas has of course
  • 00:31:26
    been accompanied by Texan and American
  • 00:31:28
    oil as by the end of 2022 18% of the
  • 00:31:31
    European Union's oil imports were also
  • 00:31:33
    all coming from across the Atlantic the
  • 00:31:36
    end result has dramatically blunted
  • 00:31:38
    Vladimir Putin's ability to Blackmail
  • 00:31:40
    the European continent with energy
  • 00:31:42
    Warfare and its deprive the Russian army
  • 00:31:45
    of billions of dollars in potential
  • 00:31:46
    funding as American oil and gas coming
  • 00:31:49
    in on ships from the West moves in to
  • 00:31:51
    largely replace the Russian oil and gas
  • 00:31:53
    that was coming in through pipes from
  • 00:31:55
    the East and the vast majority of
  • 00:31:58
    America's ability to do all of this
  • 00:31:59
    countering without firing a single shot
  • 00:32:02
    has all come from the state of Texas and
  • 00:32:05
    then Texas doesn't just leave the United
  • 00:32:07
    States in oil and gas production either
  • 00:32:09
    but also in renewable energy this is a
  • 00:32:12
    map of America's regions with a Highest
  • 00:32:14
    Potential to generate electricity from
  • 00:32:15
    wind power the windiest part of America
  • 00:32:18
    and indeed one of the windiest places on
  • 00:32:20
    the entire planet runs straight down the
  • 00:32:22
    Great Plains from North Dakota through
  • 00:32:24
    the Texas Panhandle North Texas and
  • 00:32:27
    Central Texas
  • 00:32:28
    by comparison nowhere in Continental
  • 00:32:30
    Europe does it get anywhere near as
  • 00:32:32
    windy as it does in these areas of Texas
  • 00:32:35
    the only locations with similar wind
  • 00:32:37
    potential here are within the European
  • 00:32:38
    offshore regions of Denmark Northern
  • 00:32:40
    Germany the UK and the aan sea between
  • 00:32:43
    turkey and Greece consequently Texas
  • 00:32:45
    possesses a major ability to harvest a
  • 00:32:48
    lot of power from wind and it does there
  • 00:32:51
    are more than 150 wind farms in the
  • 00:32:53
    state already that collectively produce
  • 00:32:55
    over 30,000 megaw of power and provide
  • 00:32:57
    for for around 16% of the entire State's
  • 00:33:00
    electricity needs that's by far the
  • 00:33:03
    highest amount of wind power generated
  • 00:33:05
    by any US state and if Texas were an
  • 00:33:07
    independent country it would rank fifth
  • 00:33:09
    in the entire world by wind power
  • 00:33:11
    generation in addition to Fifth and
  • 00:33:13
    natural gas and fourth in oil and then
  • 00:33:16
    to just keep adding on to Texas's energy
  • 00:33:18
    advantages you can further measure the
  • 00:33:20
    state by solar energy potential where
  • 00:33:23
    once again it contains some of the best
  • 00:33:25
    solar potential land in the entire
  • 00:33:27
    country Across the Western portions of
  • 00:33:29
    the state and so solar already accounts
  • 00:33:31
    for another 4% of Texan electricity wind
  • 00:33:34
    solar and nuclear combined provide for
  • 00:33:36
    around a third of Texas's total
  • 00:33:38
    electricity needs and are growing
  • 00:33:40
    greater all the time enabling the state
  • 00:33:42
    to export even more of its vast oil and
  • 00:33:45
    gas supplies to other states and other
  • 00:33:46
    countries who need them more Texas is
  • 00:33:49
    therefore effectively one of the world's
  • 00:33:51
    greatest energy super provinces because
  • 00:33:54
    it contains many of the largest and the
  • 00:33:55
    most productive oil and gas fields on
  • 00:33:57
    the Planet one of the largest Refinery
  • 00:34:00
    capabilities on the planet some of the
  • 00:34:01
    windiest and sunniest locations on the
  • 00:34:04
    planet a strategic position in the
  • 00:34:06
    center of North America granting it the
  • 00:34:07
    ability to easily export many of those
  • 00:34:09
    resources across the continent and a
  • 00:34:11
    long coastline free of major Maritime
  • 00:34:14
    choke points to export those resources
  • 00:34:16
    around the world from Texas is America's
  • 00:34:19
    greatest energy Province and the boom
  • 00:34:22
    that the energy industry has been
  • 00:34:23
    providing the state over the past decade
  • 00:34:25
    and a half has reverberated across every
  • 00:34:28
    other industry in the state from Tech to
  • 00:34:31
    finance to Aerospace and more which has
  • 00:34:33
    all collectively led to Texas being the
  • 00:34:36
    fastest growing of all America States
  • 00:34:38
    and raw numbers of people during the
  • 00:34:40
    21st century In Time by the 2040s Texas
  • 00:34:44
    May indeed finally end up even
  • 00:34:46
    surpassing California and become
  • 00:34:48
    America's newest most populous and most
  • 00:34:50
    influential State time will tell and
  • 00:34:53
    we'll see if I'm right 20 years from now
  • 00:34:57
    now as a nearly lifelong resident of
  • 00:34:59
    Texas myself I'm prepared to admit that
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    I may be a little biased towards my home
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