Located in the southernmost part of the United States, facing the Gulf of Mexico to the east, it ranks second in area among the fifty states in the United States, second only to the enclave of Alaska.
-Texas.
I believe you have heard the name even if you don’t know it, and if you know something about the name besides poker,
Then you will definitely know the well-known features of this land like the label.
The land is sparsely populated, the folk customs are simple, specialty steaks and BBQ, and almost every family is equipped with a shotgun. In the summer of six months a year, there are girls wearing hot pants everywhere...
Just like Los Angeles has no cars and no legs, you can imagine the style of painting here when you hear the vast land and sparse population. It is definitely not a modern city with tall buildings like San Francisco.
Most of them are sparsely distributed low-rise buildings, which have a wilderness feeling like a big town, with vast grasslands, farmland and farms everywhere.
So you will find that the cars here are basically pickups,
Really, people here really like to drive pickups, and even have that subtle chain of contempt,
Everyone thinks that sissies drive cars, but real men should drive pickups!
Also, unlike the free and open Northeast, here is traditionally conservative and believes in Christianity. Outside of a big city like Austin, you can really feel the enthusiasm of the people.
For example, if you ask someone in a steak shop for help, he will really take you back, drive his pickup truck, and the simple folk customs are not empty words.
Of course, to a certain extent, this simplicity is equated with toughness, which may also be due to the high rate of gun ownership and the straightforwardness of everyone.
Take a chestnut,
You told people on the Internet that the teamfight ended because someone came into your backyard, and you went out with your armed dad and shot him, and they might say you're a fucking jerk ,
But if you say your home is in Texas, then they might say that’s the case, then there’s no way…
Anyway, for various reasons,
People in other states always have some stereotypes about this place, such as muscles, farmers, cowboys,
How should I put it, it reminds me subtly that in China, there are always many people who think that in a certain large province in the north, people there will ride horses and shoot arrows and live in yurts...
But as long as you come once in person, this prejudice will dissipate.
Especially in the summer background of the golden farmland, seeing the sexy slender girl in wheat-colored hot pants jumping out from the back of the pickup truck...
Ahem, I'm sorry, I wanted to introduce a few casually, but I didn't realize it was too much.
Back to the topic, although it gives people a feeling of farmland towns, Texas is quite developed economically. It and California are the two richest states in the United States.
Squeeze it out and talk about GDP alone is stronger than Australia.
Needless to say, the super-developed agriculture born of a large area of land, because the price, the cost of living, and most importantly, the tax rate is relatively low. There are more than fifty top 500 companies located here.
Based on strong industrial development, there are two highly developed industries in Texas, one is NASA's world-famous aerospace,
And the other is - energy.
Gasoline is very cheap, although it is obviously insufficient to prepare for extreme weather, but because of its independent grid, electricity is also very cheap, providing one-fifth of oil production,
Texas has always been the energy heart of the United States.
Among the many energy-related industries here, mining agreements have been reached in more than 180 countries or regions, including heating, gas supply, petrochemical and even nuclear power plants.
The outright biggest giant in the energy industry, Essencoforme Group, is here!
Continental North America, Irvine, Texas,
After getting off the plane, Fangran opened his black eyes in the customary extended Rolls-Royce, overlooking a tall building in front of him from a high altitude.
"Is that the energy industry of Fisseld?"
"That's right, that's the headquarters building of the Essencoforme Group, the energy industry controlled by Fisseld."
Sitting next to him as usual, after all, she wasn't dressed in a showy way, and she was dressed in a formal attire that exuded indifference and majesty. Adeline replied affirmatively,
"This is the only one you have opened in the energy field?"
Thinking of the many industries in the medical field led by the two upstream giants Shengqiang and Littonmei, Fangran was a little surprised that the rich and powerful Fisld had only one company in the energy field.
"To be precise, it's not just this one, and it's enough to open this one."
After correcting the deviation in Fangran's words, Adeline looked at the approaching building and explained calmly:
"It's not like you think, young master, to set up a company for production, smelting, transportation and sales. In the energy field, we have adopted an integrated business model,"
"By merging similar enterprises horizontally, while expanding vertically along the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, we will continue to use scale effects to reduce marginal costs."
Uh... In short, it means that you have taken care of everything from production to sales, right...
At any rate, I have been the CEO for more than a week, and I can still roughly understand what she is saying. After a second of shame, Fangran couldn't help but look at the building again.
I am amazed at the huge scale of the entire industrial chain of an industry within the group.
"Speaking of which, what exactly does the energy company do? Are you responsible for power generation and heating?"
Looking at Adeline, Fangran asked this question,
He suddenly discovered that the energy field and energy companies sound grand, but he really had no idea what they were actually doing.
"The so-called energy company is a commercial company that develops and effectively utilizes 'energy', which determines the national economy and national development,"
Looking at Fangran's expression of listening and seemingly not listening, knowing that this level of explanation is completely useless to him as a pure white, Adeline understood his straightforward explanation very well:
"Specifically, it is engaged in the exploration, exploitation, and transportation of primary energy such as oil, coal, and natural gas, and processing it into secondary energy for various purposes for sale to earn profits,"
"These uses also include the power generation and heating you mentioned, young master. In addition, we also involve new energy sources such as wind energy and solar energy,"
"In short, it is to operate everything related to energy."
Hearing Adeline's final summary so simple and rude, Fangran suddenly nodded thoughtfully:
"That's why you need the oil we brought back so urgently?"
"To be precise, it is the crude oil on the three tankers that you escorted back, young master."
"Aren't these two the same thing?"
Slightly taken aback, Fangran looked at Adeline's question, and the cold silver-haired figure raised his calm eyes:
"I"