The Democrats better include a transition plan for oil and gas workers or they can kiss blue Texas goodbye. The goal should be to have Texas be a center for energy and not just a center for oil and gas. It is already one of the more favorable solar and wind states.
Good point....
I must add that Texas is arguably the Capitol of the Energy Sector of the US in the 2010s, many of the Flagship MNCs which have diversified investment portfolios, including alternative energy.
Still, although Texas is so much more than just an Energy Producing State, the reality is that work in the Rigs off of the Gulf Coast, the Refineries of Metro Houston that pollute the sacred Battlefield of San Jacinto, the workers in the Eagle Shoal Ford of South Tex, are still extremely dependent upon fossil fuel based jobs.
Increasingly much of the work-force in the Petro sector and supported employment of Tejas are Latino-Americans, where I could easily see a "Jobs vs Environment" gig catching on in the event that a "Green New Deal" isn't well thought out.
We saw a jobs vs environment deal in Oregon in the late '80s / early '90s and it cost the 'Pubs many educated/suburban traditional 'Pubs parts of the State, while meanwhile Counties and precincts that voted for Dem in '88 started to swing hard in the '90s and are now 'Pub strongholds.
So yes.... a Green New Deal, messing with a massive economic sector with tons of workers, many of whom are concentrated in core energy regions needs to be extremely well thought out....
Trust me, the Coke Brothers will coming swing baseball bats on this one in multiple languages....
