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Fast Facts:

Texas is the leading crude oil-producing State in the Nation (excluding Federal offshore areas, which produce more than any single State).

The State’s signature crude oil type, known as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), remains the major benchmark of crude oil in the Americas.

Texas’s 25 petroleum refineries can process more than 4.6 million barrels of crude oil per day, and they account for more than one-fourth of total U.S. refining capacity.

More than one-fourth of total U.S. natural gas production occurs in Texas, making it the Nation’s leading natural gas producer.

Texas also leads the Nation in wind-powered generation capacity; there are over 2,000 wind turbines in West Texas alone.

Texas produces and consumes more electricity than any other State, and per capita residential use is significantly higher than the national average.

***Energy Information Administration, Colorado, http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/state/state_energy_profiles.cfm?sid=TX

Home / Texas / Texas AEA Launches Waxman-Markey Energy Tax Ad
Texas AEA Launches Waxman-Markey Energy Tax Ad
The Waxman Markey Energy Tax is a tax on all carbon-based energy – coal, oil, and natural gas. That means that 95 percent of the energy that fuels the State of Pennsylvania will be taxed. Nearly all of the remaining 5 percent of Texans’ energy comes from carbon-free nuclear, hydroelectric power, and biomass. Unfortunately, nuclear, hydro power, and as much as half of Texas’s biomass energy don’t count as “clean, renewable” energy under the “clean, renewable” electricity mandate included in the Waxman-Markey Energy Tax. In fact, less than 3 percent of the energy used to generate electricity in Texas would be “government-approved” under the Waxman-Markey Energy Tax.

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Seems like all of us are working harder in this economy just to make ends meet. 

But the politicians in Washington, DC don't seem to get it - voting to bailout Wall Street - rather than helping Main Street. 

And just when you think that it can't get worse - some in Congress are now pushing an energy tax that would be the largest tax hike in history.   

Studies show that the bill, known as the Waxman-Markey Energy Tax, could cost our family's more than $3,100 per year in new taxes. 

And that's not all - this tax will further cripple our already struggling economy - costing more American jobs. 

Higher taxes and more job losses - what could Congress be thinking? 

Call Congressman Charlie Gonzales at (210) 472-6195.  Tell him that we can't afford the Waxman-Markey Energy Tax.

Read the whole fact sheet here


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