Holy shit, how stupid.
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There is no money to be made in having backup capacity. Texas power plants are designed and built to run at 100% capacity. Any extra capacity from average expected usage is equipment and fuel that you might not use. There is no money to be made from preparation, which is why they don’t prepare. Electricity is just not considered a public utility or a need in Texas, it’s a for-profit enterprise.
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You give the electorate in this state far too much credit. This will all be long forgotten by summer and Cruz isn’t up for re-election until 2024.
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I understand all this, NOW. My hope is that the press would educate the public so that we can at least make informed decisions for our future and if the public is educated and just shrugs, then we get what we deserve.
Really disagree. People hate him and he badly underperformed most of the state GOP in ‘18. Shit sticks to him the way it doesn’t to other Republicans here.
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This is not the first time something like this has happened. The same thing happened in 2011…power generation facilities failed, rolling blackouts…ERCOT claiming “we thought we were prepared, but this is unprecedented cold…no one could have expected it. We’ll conduct a thorough investigation and make changes to ensure this never happens again.” Next “one in a lifetime” cold snap…same thing, only worse. The problem is, we keep failing to learn the lesson, and fail even harder at holding the decision makers accountable. I have no expectation that this time it will be different.
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The state has suffered $20-30 billion in damage, not counting the dead, much of which will be funded by taxpayers. As usual, Republican policies privatize the profits and socialize the losses.
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The dead don’t vote. Not that often anyway.
That’s a parody twitter account. She’s pretty good.
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Now that Senator Cruz is returning to Texas, temperatures are sure to drop.
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No doubt Cruz is immensely unpopular, but he still beat an energetic, charismatic candidate by 215k votes. Just saying in politics attention spans are short and four years might as well be an eternity. I’m sure some of his voters have boiled off because of this and the insurrection, but by 2024 most Republicans in Texas will fall into three groups:
- Hook, line, and sinker: “It WaS tHe WiNd TuRbInEs!!@!1”
- Forget: “It wasn’t that bad.”
- Forgive: “Still better than voting for a Democrat.”
Also, don’t forget that in 2024 Cruz gets to ride the coattails of a hardcore conservative candidate for POTUS. Assuming he doesn’t get primaried I’ll be stunned if he’s not re-elected.
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United Airlines is saying that his return flight was originally booked for Saturday, but that he rescheduled it at 6am this morning.
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Big snowflakes coming down here since 9:30am, another 2 inches at least.
It’s utterly insane that the Cruz family’s reaction to a week of school being cancelled due to an unprecedented weather and infrastructure crisis is a multi-family jaunt to an international resort in the middle of a global pandemic.
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She’s intelligent, honest, and compassionate–exactly what we should expect of our elected officials. I felt the same way about her predecessor too.
Where did you see this?
Me too.
How quickly can we finish the wall to keep him on that side?
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