While the boosters here promote their sponsors at Big Oil, they claim that the industry has done wonderful things for other economies.  Here's a good look at the tsunami budget crisis in another state, Oklahoma, brought on by the rants to low-info voters about abortion, homosexuals, where people pee and the "Muslim" in the White House:  http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-oklahoma-bust/

Oil is taxed at 1% and schools are going to a four-day week, while peoples homes are being destroyed by earthquakes brought on by reckless frackers. Revenue has dropped by a billion dollars.