This is the same as old people gutting it up and dying of COVID. It’s like a duty.
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Crenshaw’s performative trolling getting called out.
We’re any of these fuckers even here last week?
From the article:
“Hey Paxton,” Martinez Fischer tweeted, “Texans are getting $15,000 electric bills—you are the state’s consumer cop and you abandoned ship when Texans needed your support?”
On Wednesday, Paxton announced he was launching an investigation into the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates Texas’ electrical grid, and their “mishandling of this week’s extreme winter weather.”
Both of these quotes highlight the depressing state of our Texas government. Crooks and idiots.
You have seen this before, most likely; but have you really seen it?
Look again at the painting on the wall.
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Who could’ve predicted this?
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Business for profit. To increase profits when sales stagnate, you raise the rates. Shareholders before customers. Should have seen it coming.
Apparently the whole thing blows - literally - if demand on the grid ever exceeds supply. The entire state (save El Paso) would’ve been blacked out, and it would’ve taken months to repair every transformer station, sub-station and pole unit in the state.
For this reason alone, we need to be connected to the national grid. We were this close to being deregulated back to the Stone Age.
Yeah, it’s a very, very frightening thought. I read a bit about it, but don’t understand if there are ways to protect against it other than quickly cutting off power demand (the only option available last week) or to connect to the national grids to increase supply. The risk of that scenario needs to be minimized as much as technically possible.
Unless Texas is going to winterize it’s generating capacity and add redundancy to it, or connect to the national grid, the next time this happens the only solution will be the same: cut off power.
From what I am seeing, the GOP leadership in the state is fine with this. Even trying to sell it as a positive.
If you connected to the national grid, you’d be under the thumb of federal regulators, and then you wouldn’t be “tough as Texas”.
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For this reason, I’m not sure how much I really believe the “minutes from disaster” line. They are trying to spin the blackouts as them acting heroically, not incompetently.
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I tend to agree, but it’s a lie that might backfire on them as it leads reasonable people to conclude that connecting to the national grids is a no-brainer.
If you not willing for your neighbor to die to preserve your electric liberty you’re not a real Texan.
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Let’s just hook Rick Perry and the rest of the idiots up to the grid instead.
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There’s be plenty of wind energy, but not much storage capacity.
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And Beaumont
Neither is Amarillo
Lubbock or Texarkana.