Don’t give too much credit to a headline.
On the other hand, this article is discussing more those outside the oil industry, that have benefited from the oil industry purchases of the last few years.
As always you are right on the money. For those who don’t know - Biz Insider is mostly a left biz paper. They love to knock things that work. TX may have a little less money in 2016 - the 2015 tax bill or 14 will keep things moving and this is legislative year so spending will be based upon lower oil prices for next two years. When you have things like Toyota moving in this new year and a thousand families a week all of this year - our biz cycle looks great.