While Texas has a hell of a lot of natural resources, trying to break away from the entire commerce cycle and keep growing food ends up getting a bit tricky.
I mean hell you guys can’t even produce your own electricity effectively enough to keep people from freezing to death. Even fixing that problem without local suppliers and engineers ends up being pretty damn expensive.
It’ll start well enough trying to turn resources from outside the state to local sources. A lot of local small and medium industry will probably be bolstered. But then what happens when the US stops allowing import of cattle. You’ve got plenty of food, food isn’t your problem anymore, but now all those giant farms don’t have anybody to sell their goods to anymore. They’re going to go from feeding 50 states to trying to feed one state that already has all they want of that product. You can’t just f*** with supply and demand like that your economy will s*** itself. You’ll be trying to sell oil and gas to Mexico. Your ports will just be packed with tankers trying to find somebody that’ll buy your oil, so you can trade for stuff you really need. You won’t even be able to fill the tankers fast enough to keep that section of the economy flowing like it is now.
When brexit did it they just got a taste of the pain because all of their trade routes and agreements More or less remained in place just today non-preferential price.
Credit due, you’ve got a better chance of making it work then just about any other state, but y’all go mad Max before you got it sorted.
Truth is they could just import crops from other countries until they build a water desalination and piping network to provide water throughout the whole state… country? 🤔 And if they did that, then they feasibly could survive on their own
But that would require actual care for its citizens, planning and forethought.
Sure, here’s why that doesn’t make any sense. Texas’s main crops are: Cotton, Corn, Sorghum, Oats, Wheat, Hay, Peanutes, Rice, Roots, Bulbs, Fruiting Veggies, Melons, Citrus, and Herbs\spices. That may seem like a diverse amount of food, but you don’t have enough to feed everyone in your state and you will grow very tired of the same old shit without import\export trade.
That’s your concern? We have farmland coming out our ass. Food isn’t going to be the problem.
While Texas has a hell of a lot of natural resources, trying to break away from the entire commerce cycle and keep growing food ends up getting a bit tricky.
I mean hell you guys can’t even produce your own electricity effectively enough to keep people from freezing to death. Even fixing that problem without local suppliers and engineers ends up being pretty damn expensive.
It’ll start well enough trying to turn resources from outside the state to local sources. A lot of local small and medium industry will probably be bolstered. But then what happens when the US stops allowing import of cattle. You’ve got plenty of food, food isn’t your problem anymore, but now all those giant farms don’t have anybody to sell their goods to anymore. They’re going to go from feeding 50 states to trying to feed one state that already has all they want of that product. You can’t just f*** with supply and demand like that your economy will s*** itself. You’ll be trying to sell oil and gas to Mexico. Your ports will just be packed with tankers trying to find somebody that’ll buy your oil, so you can trade for stuff you really need. You won’t even be able to fill the tankers fast enough to keep that section of the economy flowing like it is now.
When brexit did it they just got a taste of the pain because all of their trade routes and agreements More or less remained in place just today non-preferential price.
Credit due, you’ve got a better chance of making it work then just about any other state, but y’all go mad Max before you got it sorted.
You’re going to be eating cotton and hay or fighting cows for their corn
Pay per view would make them some income maybe
Lol okay, have fun eating all that seed corn and cotton.
Truth is they could just import crops from other countries until they build a water desalination and piping network to provide water throughout the whole state… country? 🤔 And if they did that, then they feasibly could survive on their own
But that would require actual care for its citizens, planning and forethought.
Also a lot of electricity….which they’re not great at.
They could just put solar and wind across the state, but again, planning, forethought, caring
lol. Solar and wind power. Are we talking about the same state?
Texas could benefit a lot from green energy without the baggage of nuclear, honestly. But try telling that to its people
Exactly my point. The flag of Texas should have a person cutting off their nose and the state motto should be “take that, Face!”
What do you mean voting for our own best interests?
Texas has the most wind power of any state last time I checked.
Thank you for the info, I checked and you’re correct. I am genuinely surprised.
What countries would want to work with them knowing it would likely hurt relations with the US? How can they even afford it?
Russia. North Korea, perhaps.
<.< Over which border/through which airspace?
Fair
Sure, here’s why that doesn’t make any sense. Texas’s main crops are: Cotton, Corn, Sorghum, Oats, Wheat, Hay, Peanutes, Rice, Roots, Bulbs, Fruiting Veggies, Melons, Citrus, and Herbs\spices. That may seem like a diverse amount of food, but you don’t have enough to feed everyone in your state and you will grow very tired of the same old shit without import\export trade.