This new industrial economy is already evident in those parts of the country embracing the energy revolution, notably Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

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Courts have rejected some of them (notably a Texas voter-ID law), but plenty remain.

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Some alternate-history novels have envisioned a separate Texas, notably 1990's "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, which explores what might have happened to the world had computers been perfected in Britain a century earlier.

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Texas imposes notably hefty property taxes.

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Most notably, BP's Whiting and Texas City plants were running at half capacity, as was Valero Energy's McKee refinery in West Texas, keeping off the market some 500, 000 barrels per day of fuels, about 3% of total U.S. demand.

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Most notably, BP's Whiting and Texas City plants were running at half capacity, as was Valero Energy (nyse: VLO - news - people )'s McKee refinery in West Texas, keeping off the market some 500, 000 barrels per day of fuels, about 3% of total U.S. demand.

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And notably, 300, 000 barrels per day or more from the United States primarily from North Dakota and Texas and from a rebound in off-shore production.

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