Texas Chooses Fracking Over People

NOT ONLY IS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA owned and controlled by its corporate masters, so are all other governments in the United States of Acquisition: state, local, you name it. By now everyone in Texas should know this. If you move to Texas, there is a decent chance that you will end up with an oil well in your yard, or close to it, that you will neither own the well nor benefit from it, and that there is nothing you can do about it. Just ask the good folks in Denton. They passed a city ordinance banning oil well fracking from their city limits, and the oil industry went straight to Austin and instructed its employees, including the governor and state legislature, to do something about it, which they promptly, being good employees, did. The Texas state government, aka "the oil industry" passed a state law denying cities and towns the right to pass any ordinance prohibiting drilling for oil in their city limits. Ironic, that the state which is supposedly so libertarian and opposed to government tyranny, has allowed the state government to run over local self determination. An executive representative of the oil industry industry said "some people are just opposed to oil and gas. maybe they should ride their horses to work." Gee, how insightful. I'd be happy to ride my horse, if that particular oil industry spokesperson would be kind enough to walk directly behind my noble steed.