Railroad Commish Smitherman Says He's Preparing Texas to Become "Island Nation" for U.S. Collapse

[TexasTowelie]

Barry Smitherman: Fighting to secure the border ... possibly from the rest of America.

The way Railroad Commission Chairman and Texas Attorney General candidate Barry Smitherman tells it, the aim of his 10 years of public service was not brazen tub-thumping for the industry he regulates in order to shore up deep-pocketed benefactors for his political aspirations. It's only ever been about readying Texas for the coming economic collapse of the United States of America.

"We are uniquely situated because we have energy resources, fossil and otherwise, and our own independent electrical grid," he told noted conspiracy mill World Nut Daily. "Generally speaking, we have made great progress in becoming an independent nation, an 'island nation' if you will, and I think we want to continue down that path so that if the rest of the country falls apart, Texas can operate as a stand-alone entity with energy, food, water and roads as if we were a closed-loop system."

Notwithstanding the fact that Texas has the most anemic electricity reserves in the country, Smitherman does have a point: We do in fact have a whole lot of oil. Oil, WND notes, Smitherman has almost single-handedly kept flowing via hydraulic fracturing, beating back attempts from President Barack Obama to stanch it. Texas oil production is at its highest since the mid-'80s.

In case you were laboring under the delusion that the Railroad Commission of Texas sees its charge as anything other than promoting the production of oil and gas as rapidly as possible, consequences be damned, Smitherman sets the record straight: "This was one of my goals at the Utility Commission and it is one my goals currently as chairman of the Railroad Commission. That's why I stress so vehemently oil and gas production, permitting turnaround times, and everything that enables the industry to produce as much as it can, as quickly as it can."

More at http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/09/barry_smitherman_says_hes_prep.php .

[SummerSnow]

1. Secede already and stop talking about it.

Poop or get off the toilet

[HooptieWagon]

2. Cut off their water supply...

....and Federal Aid. See how long they wish to remain "independant".

[kestrel91316]

3. Not sure how his idea of water independence jives with the ongoing drought there........

[kentauros]

4. Post this in GD, and

you'll have dozens of DUers supporting his ideas.

Although, I see we have a few here already...