Oil Price Tremors Not Rattling Texas. Yet.
![Don Tymrak, city manager of Karnes City, in his downtown office. He says the recent tumble in oil prices shouldn't affect the South Texas city's conservative plans for development – at least not yet.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20141022215800im_/http://s3.amazonaws.com/static.texastribune.org/media/images/2014/10/20/TXT-ShaleLifeKarnes-Richmond077_jpg_312x176_crop_q100.jpg)
A steep drop in crude oil prices threatens to slow drilling in some U.S. oilfields, but officials in Texas' hottest shale plays say they're not sweating things yet. The boom is still a boom, they say, and it's way too early to walk away.