[RayChuang88]

Here's one gigantic advantage Texas has over California: oil.

Indeed, remember that article from yesterday over the US fighting with Exxon Mobil over a potential HUGE offshore oilfield that could be over 1 billion barrels of oil 250 miles off the southeast coast of Texas? That's the type of oil find if exploited that could mean many thousands of jobs for oil production facilities around Houston and Texas City, TX and in Louisiana. Indeed, don't be surprised that Texas and Louisiana experiences a huge economic boom as oil production ramps up with the next President, which is increasingly likely on January 20, 2013.

[Spktyr]

California has *tons* of oil. In fact, they have so much off shore, tar balls float ashore and coat some of the beaches. They’ve got quite a bit inland, too. See the La Brea Tar Pits as one example - those are oil sands!

They just refuse to exploit it any more. My high school mascot (at one school) was an oil field worker, from when they actually did drill for and pump oil. If they’d pump out some of the oil off their coast, they wouldn’t have to keep cleaning up their beaches. From the leftist Heal The Bay website - they even admit it themselves:

“What is the source of the tar that sometimes appears on Santa Monica Bay beaches? Is that from offshore drilling?

Natural oil seeps are present in the Santa Monica Bay off the coast of Redondo Beach and Manhattan Beach. They are a natural geological occurrence and are not caused by any human activity. On average, about 10 barrels (420 gallons) of oil from the seeps reach the sea surface daily in Santa Monica Bay. Surface oil generally drifts northward, towards the shore, reaching the beaches from Redondo Beach to Malibu in a few days. Tar on Santa Monica Bay beaches also comes from natural seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel. Geologic activity, like earthquakes, can affect the flow of natural oil seeps.”

http://www.healthebay.org/offshore-oil-drilling-%E2%80%93-faqs

Ten gallons just oozing out and they won’t let anyone go pump it all out to keep the beaches clean. But they’ll happily attack you to get more money to clean up the oil once it inevitably hits the beaches.

[Spktyr]

Er, make that ten BARRELS per day.

[LOC1]

There is a lot of oil known to be available off the coast of California, too. Particularly near the Santa Barbra Islands. California just will not allow it to be developed.