How would independence affect energy prices?

Texas is the largest energy producer in the union, and a producer sets prices from a position of strength. Independence puts Texans on the right side of the energy equation, in control of the resource the rest of the world has to buy.

Texas produces far more energy than it uses

Start with the fact that decides everything else. Texas pumps about 43 percent of all the crude oil and 27 percent of all the natural gas produced in the United States, roughly 5.6 million barrels of oil a day. It is also the largest wind producer in the country by more than two to one, and its solar capacity has tripled since 2020. Texas does not import its energy. It exports it. A place that produces a surplus of the thing everyone needs is a place with leverage over price, not a place at the mercy of it.

An energy producer controls its own energy costs

The countries that struggle with energy prices are the ones that depend on someone else for supply. Texas is the opposite. With its own oil, its own gas, its own grid, and a fast-growing base of wind and solar, an independent Texas would have more control over what Texans pay for fuel and power, not less. The supply is here. The refineries are here. The generation is here. Independence keeps the value of all of it inside Texas instead of routing decisions about it through Washington.

The hidden price increase is the inflation tax, and that is made in Washington

The largest force quietly raising the cost of everything, energy included, is the falling value of the dollar, and that is a Washington product. The dollar has lost about 22 percent of its purchasing power since 2020 alone. When the price at the pump climbs, part of that is the fuel and part of it is a dollar worth less than it used to be. An independent Texas building sound money, on the Texas Bullion Depository and the gold-and-silver legal tender of HB 1056, takes a step away from the inflation that inflates every energy bill.

Texas already runs its own electricity market

Texas is the only one of the lower 48 states with its own self-contained power grid, run by ERCOT, with a competitive retail market where Texans already choose among providers. That market is built and operated in Texas today. Independence does not put it at risk. It removes the federal layer sitting on top of it and leaves the grid fully in Texan hands, where the people who depend on it set the rules for it.

Self-government means Texans set energy policy for Texas

Today, energy and environmental rules written in Washington for fifty states land on the single largest energy producer among them, whether they fit Texas or not. Independence hands that dial to Austin. Whether Texas leans into production, into renewables, into both at once, which is the path it is already on, becomes a Texas decision made by people who answer to Texas voters and Texas energy workers, not a mandate imposed from outside.

The bottom line

Texas is an energy producer, not an energy importer, and producers hold the stronger hand on price. Independence keeps the oil, the gas, the wind, the solar, and the grid under Texan control, and steps away from the Washington inflation that raises every bill.