Texas has been one of the first to deny this so it is only fitting that they be one of the first to bear the brunt of it's effects.
If you are going to act joyful for the suffering of others, you should at minimum get your justifications correct.
[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48296 [2] https://www.eia.gov/state/print.php?sid=TX
1 - https://grist.org/project/accountability/excess-emissions-te...
The point above about Texas is probably that their current leaders make claims that reducing greenhouse gases won’t save us from global warming (at this point, no one really denies that global warming and climate change is happening).
> Texas consumes more petroleum than any other state. In 2020, the state ranked third by volume in per capita petroleum use, after Louisiana and Alaska.
> Texas produces more crude oil than any other state and accounted for more than two-fifths (42%) of the nation's production from both onshore and offshore areas in 2022.23 Texas has led all states in crude oil production in every year but one, since at least 1970.24 The state also accounts for more than two-fifths of the nation's crude oil proved reserves and has more than one-fourth of the nation's 100 largest oil fields as measured by reserves.
> ...because hydraulically fractured horizontal wells drilled in both the Permian Basin and the Eagle Ford shale led to increased crude oil production, a surge in production began around 2010 after more than 25 years of gradual decline.29,30 In 2017, Texas oil production exceeded the state's 1972 peak for the first time.
That is the cost of wind. The amount of petroleum needed to make a wind farm is insanely larger, mostly caused by all the miles and miles of wires they need to be insulated.
But go on…
> Texas is the nation's largest consumer of HGLs, using more than all other states combined. Texas is also the largest consumer of distillate fuel oil, including diesel fuel for highway use, and residual fuel oil.50,51,52 The transportation sector accounts for almost all the rest of the petroleum consumed in the state. The commercial and residential sectors together account for about 1% of petroleum use
Is it just that the spread of production minus consumption of oil is smaller that that of natural gas?
[^1]: https://sci-hub.se/http://www.nature.com/articles/493012a
[^2]: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scien...
And as pointed out by others, your justifications are the ones lacking.
There’s oil and gas in Texas because it used to be a warm shallow sea near the equator where trillions of organisms lived and died and found perfect conditions to be cooked into oil over millions of years.
Texas is still somewhat near the equator, the area that is still warm. And thus will get hotter first.
Unless you don’t burn fossil fuels yourself, you do not occupy any sort of moral high ground. Unless you were particularly prescient and entirely saintly, if you owned a piece of land that had a bunch of oil, chances are almost 100% that you would have sold it to the oil companies too.
I hope you’re living a net zero carbon emissions lifestyle in a country with a net zero carbon emissions balance, otherwise, I wish you the very same fate.