The only funny thing about it is people learn their world view is incorrect. Texans are capitalists: if there was a dollar to be made pumping water uphill, there'd be the world's largest salt lake in West Texas.

Oil is an important automotive fuel, but it's a chemical stock for everything that's touching your skin at the second. Hilariously, we should probably start wondering if our plastics come from oil sourced from "ethicality regulated states" or something.