On Texas, Evolution and Practical Science

[jarnon]

I am intrigued by the Leviathan and Tamar gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea, which could turn Israel into an energy producer. Even more interesting, gas has also been discovered off the coast of the Gaza Strip. Unfortunately, Gaza is ruled by Hamas and blockaded by Israel. This could be one explanation for the Palestinian government in the West Bank's new friendship with Hamas.

[Spock]

I am intrigued by the Leviathan and Tamar gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea, which could turn Israel into an energy producer. Even more interesting, gas has also been discovered off the coast of the Gaza Strip. Unfortunately, Gaza is ruled by Hamas and blockaded by Israel. This could be one explanation for the Palestinian government in the West Bank's new friendship with Hamas.

That is pretty neat isn't it.

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/06/puttin ... countries/

And for all the anti-California stuff in this thread(and on Carpe Diem) , one of the things I love about Carpe Diem blog is that it is not "Decline Porn." It is an optimistic blog, which is sometimes disconcerting.

While "Carpe Diem" is a leader in looking at the (relative) differences between Texas and California, -as the above link shows, it recognizes Cali is still the US, with all that that entails.

Pull quote-from the above linked column.
"1. America’s largest state economy is California, which produced $2.2 trillion of economic output in 2013, just slightly below Brazil’s GDP in the same year of $2.24 trillion. In 2013, California as a separate country would have been the 8th largest economy in the world, ahead of Russia ($2.1 trillion) and Italy ($2.07 trillion). And California’s population is only 38 million compared to Brazil’s population of almost 200 million, which means California produces the same economic output as Brazil with about 80% fewer people. That’s a testament to the superior, world-class productivity of the American worker.

2. America’s second largest state economy – Texas – produced $1.53 trillion of economic output in 2013, placing it just slightly ahead of the world’s 12th largest country by GDP – Australia – with $1.50 trillion of economic output."

[Bob78164]

I can picture you rubbing your hands together and thinking "Oooh, I have a chance to take a political point against Texas(and Spock)." But heaven forbid, we ever take a serious look at why businesses (with middle class type employees) and also just plain middle class type people are moving in droves from California to Texas. Occidental Petroleum and Toyota being 2 recent prominent examples.

http://www.joelkotkin.com/content/00912 ... seat-texas

A Joel Kotkin article on the Toyota move.

Kotkin's body of work on this whole topic is informative of the issue in general.

A pull quote from the article that is related to previous posts in this thread.
>>>>Blessed with huge fossil fuel reserves, California once stood as one of the global centers of the energy industry. Now, with the exception of Chevron, which is shifting more operations out of state, all the major oil companies are gone, converting California from a state of energy producers to energy consumers, and, in the process, sending billions of dollars to Texas, Canada and elsewhere for natural gas and oil that could have been produced here.<<<<<

California now leads the nation in job creation. I guess raising taxes isn't so bad for the economy after all. --Bob

[Jeemie]

If this thread wasn't about creationism, why was creationism even mentioned?

In fact, may I ask what the point of this thread was in the first place?

[SportsFan68]

If this thread wasn't about creationism, why was creationism even mentioned?

In fact, may I ask what the point of this thread was in the first place?

You may ask anything you want around here. You often get an answer you don't like. More rarely, you don't get an answer at all.