Did you know, if the 1.32 million jobs Texas created since 2007 Recession are removed from the statistic, the other 49 states would be minus 1 million jobs…from 2007 levels?

Energy – natural gas and oil extraction – is the reason for the Texas job boom.

California once led the Nation as its diverse economic industries flourished.

With a drill-friendly legislature and governor, it could be that way again.

But ‘drill-friendly’ translates into ‘Republican policy’, not likely in today’s California.