I agree with Gromen. Scarcitiy and corresonding unaffordability is on the porch banging on our front door. Why then does our country insist on exporting the last of its hydrocabons to foreign countries, below extraction costs, which in turn raises (corporate) debt levels and increases costs to the average American consumer? Who is it that is making these policies in my country today that will harm my family later? Do they remotely understand depletion, or well economics, how shale oil and gas debt will be paid back and its wells plugged and abandoned? Shale oil and gas is fragile, expensive tool to be using in dictating foreign policy, or trying to prop up the dollar. Only the people that benefit from exports financially believe that.

What if OPEC's budding relationship with China precludes it from selling oil to the US in the next decade, when shale oil production levels are half what they are now and cost two times as much? U.S. imposed sanctions on other producing countries in the world, right or wrong, currently exceed U.S. tight oil exports. Oil prices have fallen recently because of tariffs and corresponding treats to demand. The amount of money private enterprise is about to borrow to try and beat Qatar in an LNG race will NEVER be paid back. Total indebtedness to build and move U.S. shale oil and gas around the world will ultimately exceed $1T before its all over.

And then there is water.

How does the cost of energy affect the ability of 30 million or so Texans to live and work.

This is a great video on how water came to West Texas. Only about 3% of the water furnished to customers of the Colorado River Municipal Water District comes from ground water. The rest is surface water.

Here is a great video on how water is supplied to Midland, Odessa and nearby communities.

https://youtu.be/tLKZoIgOcR4?si=5PYV30Mz3XZ3HPWr

https://hydromet.lcra.org/

I hope you are sitting down; Washington D.C. doesn't care if the Permian shale sector drills itself out of business, nor if it splits in half down I-20 from earthquakes, nor if it dries up and blows away from no water. Neither does Austin, tuthfully. London, Singapore, Soul, nor Rotterdam, the primary recipients of Permian oil exports could care less. I know you know that. Water is definitely a "cost" that West Texas bares.

97% of water in an arid desert, with less than 15 inches of rainfall a year is surface water. I had no idea.

Respectfully, West Texans think they'll make their fortunes in this HZ shale play and then when the water is gone they'll just move to the Hill County, like every other California DH is doing, about 1,000 per day. We'll, we've got no water here either. Every reservoir in Central Texas is averaging 30-35% of full capacity and parts of Central Texas are in a 10 year drought. The drill baby, drill whackos in the Permian need Houston's water but Houston ain't got it either.

Sorry kids, no oil left. No water either. We exported all of our natural gas so you only get electrity 6 hours a day; good luck getting AI to help you with that. But we're leaving you plenty of debt, so you got THAT going for you.