Do Top US Cities for Homelessness Have Democrat Mayors ?

A nextbigfuture reader had a comment about which US cities had the most homelessness and whether the mayor is democrat or republican. I have used US Housing and Urban Development statistics and the wikipedia entries for each city for their mayor and party affiliation. Texas’ homeless population shrunk by nearly a third over the past …

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Texas Oil Production Could More than Double by 2025 and Surpass Saudi Arabia

ExxonMobil revised its Permian Basin (Texas and New Mexico) growth plans to produce more than 1 million oil-equivalent barrels per day by as early as 2024 – an increase of nearly 80 percent and a significant acceleration of value. Exxon’s resource base in the Permian is approximately 10 billion oil-equivalent barrels and is likely to …

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Texas Sets New Record for Oil Production

The Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO) reported oil production in Texas totaled a record 1.54 billion barrels (bbl) in 2018 which surpassed a previous record of 1.28 billion bbl set in 1973. If Texas were a country it would be the fourth largest oil producer after the USA, Saudi Arabia and Russia. …

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SpaceX Texas Launch Site Progress

SpaceX continues to build the Starship hopper test rocket. They are removing placeholder engines and opened up the rocket to add fuel tanks and the real raptor engines. Here are tweets about progress on the Texas launch site. It still looks pretty good for a February first hop launch test. NEW: Weekend droneshot anticipated South …

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Texas Has Oil Past 2050 and Telling Real-Life JR Ewings to Stop Will Not Work

The US Geological Survey has performed an updated survey of the primary oil basin in Texas and doubled their estimate of technically recoverable oil and gas from 2016. Fracking Technology Keeps Improving They did not change how much oil they thought was in the formation. The oil in has been known for decades. We knew …

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Texas will add 2 million barrels of oil per day in 2019 and more in 2020

Texas Permian oil producers will add three pipelines and 2 million barrels of oil a day. A few months ago it was believed that U.S. oil production was going to plateau from mid-2018 to 2020. However, August saw the largest annual increase in U.S. oil production in 98 years, according to government data. The American …

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