Gasoline is a refined petroleum product used as fuel in internal combustion engines. It is made from crude oil and other petroleum liquids. Gasoline contributes to air pollution and methods of crude oil extraction like hydraulic fracturing can cause water pollution. The EPA's Clean Power Plan aims to reduce climate change by encouraging Texas to transition from gasoline to natural gas, which Texas has in abundance. This could open manufacturing jobs but also signals a shift away from the oil and gasoline that currently dominate Texas's economy as the largest oil producing state.

1. Shannon Price

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 That stuff that makes your car run
 Actual definition: Refined petroleum used as fuel for
internal combustion engines
 Made from crude oil and other petroleum liquids
What is gasoline?

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 Gasoline contributes to air pollution
 The ways we get crude oil contribute to water
pollution (i.e. hydraulic fracturing)
 EPA Clean Power Plan:
 Aimed at combatting climate change
 Suggests Texas switch to natural gas
Environmental Effects

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 Texas is the number one oil producing state in the
country
Gas Prices & Texas
Economy

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Prices this year

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 The push towards natural gas
 Texas has a lot of it, and we’re trying to use it more
 This opens up manufacturing jobs in natural gas, but it
transitions away from gasoline & oil
 What will that mean for Texas?
Current Issues
Surrounding Gasoline

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 http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?p
age=oil_home
 http://txlege.texastribune.org/topics/energy/
 http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2014/09/24/flow-
of-money-from-south-texas-oil-startles-economists/
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