What resources does the United States get from Texas?

Answer 1

A. Only Calfornia (55) surpasses Texas (34) electoral votes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electoral_College

B. NASA’s Mission Control is just south of Houston, Texas. Training for the astronauts is done here. (Shuttle and Space Station)

C. Texas refines over 85% of the gasoline in the United States.

D. Defense Industry.
ARMY - Fort Sam Houston (Brook Army Medical Burn Center), Fort Bliss, Fort Hood, Red River Army Depot

NAVY - Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Naval Air Station JRB, Naval Air Station Kingsville, Naval Station Ingleside

AIR FORCE - Brook AFB, Dyess AFB, Goodfellow AFB, Kelley AFB, Lackland AFB, Laughlin AFB, Randolph AFB, Shepard AFB

US COAST GUARD - Galveston maritime group, VTS (Vessel Traffic Service) Houston to Galveston, Corpus Christi maritime group

E. Computer Industry - Texas currently leads the nation in producing computer chips and communications: Texas Instruments, Hewlet Packard, Dell Computer, EDS, Raytheon, Motorola, National Semiconductor, Intel, AMD, Atmel, Applied Materials, Ball Semiconductor, Delphi, Nortel, etc.. The list goes on and on.

F. Health Centers - Largest research centers for Cancer research, the best burn centers and the top trauma units in the world.

G. Alumni from the following colleges : UT, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Rice, SMU, University of Houston, Baylor, UNT, Texas Women's University out of 130 listed.

H. Paper plastics, insurance, etc.

I. Texas raises beef, poultry, hogs and several types of grain, fruit and vegetables and fishing fleets provide seafood from the Gulf.

J. Continental Airlines is based in Houston, and American Airlines and Southwestern Airlines are based in Dallas.

K. Houston has one of the largest ports in North America, and is expanding.

Answer 2

A BIG (as in Texan) percentages of the U.S. production of, grain crops, cattle and other livestock, RICE, fish, oysters, shrimp, grass seed, petro chemicals, plastics, ships, aircraft, and a little oil, since some self appointed guardians of the public nostrils decided we should not produce it on this continent.... wonder who that was???

Answer 3

Texas produces the best oranges and grapefruit in the world, in my opinion. Oil, and oil refineries, cattle, borax, basalt, some precious metals, turquoise, and some cotton I think.

Answer 4

Energy, technology, agriculture & livestock...

As of 2006, Texas, for the first time, has more Fortune 500 company headquarters (56) than any other state (California has 55; ironically, it was due to the move of Fluor from California to Texas). This has been attributed to both the growth in population in Texas and the rise of oil prices in 2005, which resulted in the growth in revenues of many Texas oil drilling and processing companies.

Texas is the largest international exporter among the 50 American states, with international merchandise exports totaling $117.2 Billion in 2004.[32] In 2002, the Port of Houston was 6th among the top sea ports in the world in terms of total cargo volume;[33] Air Cargo World rated Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as "the best air cargo airport in the world".[34]

Texans pride themselves in a history of tradition, yet they seek new social and technological developments also. Round Rock (an Austin suburb) is the headquarters of Dell and the surrounding area is known as "Silicon Hills". Dallas is a famously cosmopolitan metropolis and the birthplace of the integrated circuit, Houston is a global leader in the energy industry. The cultures of San Antonio and El Paso retain their Mexican heritage while Fort Worth maintains its western heritage. With a nod to its diversity and its past as a former sovereign nation, the state tourism slogan is "Texas: It's like a whole other country.®" (The slogan is used only in domestic advertising, a different slogan is used for marketing to Latin American countries.)

Texas is one of the top filmmaking states in the United States, just after California and New York. In the past 10 years alone (1995-2004), more than $2.75 billion has been spent in Texas for film and television production. The Texas Film Commission was founded for free services to filmmakers, from location research to traveling.[35]

Since 2003, Texas state officials have been committed to developing the economy of Texas with various initiatives such as the Texas Enterprise Fund and the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, which invest money into developing Texas business.

According to updated statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce, Texas has transcended California to become the No. 1 exporting state in the U.S. for the five consecutive years between 2002 and June 2006. The value of Texan exports to all countries in the world reached 71.97 billion in the first half of 2006 and expanded by 13.8% as compared with the same period of 2005. The main exporting destinations for Texan products were Mexico, Canada, Mainland China, South Korea, Netherlands and Taiwan. Based on the above data, Taiwan was the 6th largest trading partner for Texas. Texan exports to Taiwan totaled 1.76 billion. The major Texan products exported to Taiwan included computer & electronics products, chemicals, machinery, food, waste & scraps, electrical equipment, agricultural products, primary metal manufactures and transportation equipment.

Answer 5

American style sophistication.One look at cheer leaders from Texas cowboys will make you understand what i mean and yes of course the oil.

Answer 6

Mostly oil.

And for the record and those who say village idiots (most likely referring to Bush) HE WAS NOT BORN IN TEXAS. Not all of us claim him as a Texan.

Answer 7

it's all about that $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$like every other state in the union taxes

Answer 8

oil and fried brains for the government

Answer 9

Beef, oil...... Maybe we could just sell part of it to another country like Sweden.

Answer 10

Mostly bull ****.