[thackney]

Texas wouldn’t go anywhere... we refine 75% of the world’s oil.

Not even close. In Texas we have 26 refineries capable of processing 4.75 MMBPD. The world uses about 86 MMBPD. We process about 6% of the world and about 24% of the US.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/refinery_capacity_data/historical/2008/table1.pdf

[erkyl]

But we have five of the eleven top producing American refineries and with a total of 26 refineries, we have more than any other state in the ‘union.’

I don’t care about the other refineries in the world, but when considering secession, it would be lovely to take 26 of the nation’s refineries for the Republic of Texas and then also be free to drill off shore, build more refineries and build coal powered plants. If you add in our likely neighbors of Oklahoma and Louisiana (should they decide to join us), add another 22 to our growing Republic. That’s a total of 48 refineries out of around 160 of the total refineries in the US. Or about a third?

[willyd]

Still...thats a pretty big chunk...nowhere close to the 75% though...lol