Me thinks that Texas gets more back from the feds that it pays in so if they wanta go, let 'um... They are a drain on the US Treasury... BTW, that goes for mosy of the South... They all are doing much better on dollars returned compared to dollars paid in than alot of their NE and western counterparts... Oh yeah, and no protection either once they go... If Mexico want's to invade then it's Texas's problem... Not ours...

(But, Boebrdz... We need Texas's oil...)

We do??? The US has only 3% of the world's oil reserves so if we all just cut out 3 miles of driving per hundred miles we are driving now then there would be no need for replqacing that oil... And when you factor in the amount of oil that Texans use of the total US reserves then it's probably closer to 2 miles per hundred that would need to be sacrificed...

B~