Meanwhile, Obama is the reason for 4.00 gas..on purpose, to kill America.

And, up in the North Central counties, we have the extremely active Barnett Shale. Just across the Louisiana border, around Shreveport, there is the Haynesville Shale. Now, if natural gas prices would just climb, we producers would be even happier.

This is pure fluff? What does “Thirty-two percent of the electricity on the grid was from wind energy” mean? How big is the "grid"? What we need is the actual number of megawatt hours generated by wind, divided by the number of megawatt hours from other sources for a stated region and a stated time. Typically, wind energy contributes about 4% of energy consumed in Texas over a 24 hour period.

A coupla years ago on New Years Day (? I think that is when it happened) the wind in West Texas just quit, bang, just like that, and all the machines stopped, and all the power just evaporated until some fueled units could be brought on line.

Oklahoma is booming, also, with new oil and gas production and wind farms. However, I read last week that our oil imports from the Middle East have not been slowing down any. The U.S. is producing more oil than at any time since 1992, but we´re also using more. We´re also in desperate need of new refining capacity.

I lived in San Angelo for about a year and a half and Mr A is from that region. What bothers me is the dearth of water. When I was there San Angelo average rainfall was 11" and it usually fell within two days. Lake Sweetwater was about dried up (again) last time I heard.

Has the west Texas water problem been solved so that potential housing for 10,000 workers and their families can be supplied with enough water? The drought map doesn´t look encouraging:

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

And a 2011 Sweetwater newspaper article reports Panhandle and West Texas reservoirs at from 1% to 46% full. I read a lot about fishing conditions--are ranchers, farmers and other consumers still drawing water from the Ogallala Aquifer? Concern about that major source of water being drawn down and not given time to replenish was evident back in the mid-80s, long before climate change and conservation was in the news.

There is a shale source rock formation for each of the conventional oil reservoirs in Texas. The current fracturing process uses water, but can be done with natural gas liquids. Recycling the fracturing fluid that comes back out with the first oil does reduce the water consumed by each well.

Nonsense.
The best wind farm will work only 25% of the time.
Peak hours consist of about 6 h per day or 25%.
Nevada odds are 1/4x1/4=1/16
Wind farm makes sense 1/16 of the time or about 6.7% of the time.
Rest of claimed 30%
is made by windmills running and regular power station next to it idling.
Power installation can not be shut down. When it starts it runs for months at the time in case of coal or years of the time of nuclear.
Make no economic sense whatsoever.
It is triple the cost. Two installations and connecting hardware.

A windmill will never produce the energy used to make and place it during its "productive" life. Guess where the energy comes from to make and place it?