Calls For Texas Governor To Resign

[skews13]

Abbott was far from the firstRepublican to deploy such blatantly false talking points in response to the ongoing crisis in Texas, which has left at least 10 people dead. But the governor's decision to appear on Fox News and attack a policy that has not even been implemented as Texans resorted to burning their belongingsto keep their children warm was viewed as yet another example of his failed leadership.

'He is lying -- people are dying': Calls for Texas governor to resign as he blames power outages on wind and solar

As millions of Texans struggled desperately to keep warm amid power outages stemming from the devastating winter storm sweeping the nation, the state's Republican governor late Tuesday blamed solar and wind for the blackouts—despite the fact that Texas relies overwhelmingly on fossil fuels—and...

www.rawstory.com

Looks like green energy is getting firmly shoved up the rights ass. Which is amazing since that’s where their heads are.

 

[JLW]

Abbott is a friggin disgrace. A Governor who goes on Fox News to lie about the causes of electrical outages while his residents die has no business leading a state. He should resign. The next Governor, hopefully, will then deal with the crisis by focusing on the health and safety of his residents rather than lying to make political points.

 

[Mac1958]

Abbott is a friggin disgrace. A Governor who goes on Fox News to lie about the causes of electrical outages while his residents die has no business leading a state. He should resign. The next Governor, hopefully, will then deal with the crisis by focusing on the health and safety of his residents rather than lying to make political points.

While people were dying and suffering, he was telling Hannity how bad the Green New Deal would be.

GQP politicians know is to toss out scare tactics and conspiracies, because they know it works for the base.

 

[Penelope]

That is why they call Tx a 'lone star" state, it has its own power grid and doesn't face federal regulations.
Yet they ask for Federal Help.

Texas wind turbines haven’t been equipped with the same winterization packages as those in the northern U.S., while machinery for other sources wasn’t as well insulated and struggled with water intake issues in the frigid temperatures.
Texas snowstorm wreaks havoc on state power grid | TheHill

 

[strollingbones]

 

[strollingbones]

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Right Wing = Hate and Lies

 

[Decus]

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Green energy is so very problematic. Everywhere you find it issues arise.

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[Toro]

It’s mostly hydrocarbons.

Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes

Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness.

www.bloomberg.com

Lying on teevee to score cheap political points with a group who think the election was stolen and Obama was born in Kenya continues to demonstrate how anti-intellectual the right was devolved.

 

[Penelope]

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Green energy is so very problematic. Everywhere you find it issues arise.

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Not if you winterize, gas runs on electricity and so does AC.

 

[Decus]

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Green energy is so very problematic. Everywhere you find it issues arise.

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Not if you winterize, gas runs on electricity and so does AC.

They winterize in Sweden but that doesn't prevent their problems with windmills in the winter.

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[Turtlesoup]

Abbott was far from the firstRepublican to deploy such blatantly false talking points in response to the ongoing crisis in Texas, which has left at least 10 people dead. But the governor's decision to appear on Fox News and attack a policy that has not even been implemented as Texans resorted to burning their belongingsto keep their children warm was viewed as yet another example of his failed leadership.

'He is lying -- people are dying': Calls for Texas governor to resign as he blames power outages on wind and solar

As millions of Texans struggled desperately to keep warm amid power outages stemming from the devastating winter storm sweeping the nation, the state's Republican governor late Tuesday blamed solar and wind for the blackouts—despite the fact that Texas relies overwhelmingly on fossil fuels—and...

www.rawstory.com

Looks like green energy is getting firmly shoved up the rights ass. Which is amazing since that’s where their heads are.

You dem trolls are clueless-----absolutely fucking clueless. You are accusing abbot of lying because he blames solar and windmills-----and your evidence of this is that Texas is an oil/gas state.

Let me help you out...10,700 windmills----one of the leaders in the world in wind energy as our flat lands in texas and farms work well.

Wind power in Texas - Wikipedia and SOLAR power---TEXAS has that too

Solar power in Texas - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Shelzin]

GQP politicians know is to toss out scare tactics and conspiracies, because they know it works for the base.

Pot... Kettle... Holy shit.

 

[JLW]

GQP politicians know is to toss out scare tactics and conspiracies, because they know it works for the base.

Pot... Kettle... Holy shit.

Not even close.

 

[emilynghiem]

That is why they call Tx a 'lone star" state, it has its own power grid and doesn't face federal regulations.
Yet they ask for Federal Help.

Texas wind turbines haven’t been equipped with the same winterization packages as those in the northern U.S., while machinery for other sources wasn’t as well insulated and struggled with water intake issues in the frigid temperatures.
Texas snowstorm wreaks havoc on state power grid | TheHill

No Penelope
Like all other States, we have a pretty even split between Liberal Democrats who want to nationalize uniform policy for individuals through federal govt vs Conservative Republicans and Libertarians who believe in fixing problems democratically to keep control of resources LOCAL to people and states.

This problem can and should be resolved locally as much as possible, and only authorize to federal govt where everyone agrees.

The problem was ERCOT underestimated the loss of energy production from the freeze, and was only used to problems during hotter months with heat waves.

Yes, this needs to be fixed and the negligence in not scheduling and warning consumers of extended blackouts will require corrections as well as compensation for losses.

But the last thing we need is to "politicize" this crisis for partisan exploitation that already screwed up the pandemic response.

We need to solve problems in the most sustainable effective ways that encourage investment in democratic self govt so that federal govt also runs as cost effectively as possible.

Half the state may lack faith and run to federal govt to solve everything.

But that doesn't supercede the rights and responsibilities of the people who believe we should be enforcing that same authority directly ourselves.

These are not the same approaches Penelope

The REAL Conservatives push for maximum ability of all people to achieve equal protections through self govt, and at most, temporary BUT NOT PERMANENT assistance from federal govt.

As with the approach that Jesse Jones from Houston brought to federal govt for the recovery from the Great Depression, the economic support through govt was intended to be TEMPORARY welfare ONLY, for two years, until states could return to being self sustaining without federal help.

But social security, public housing, and other programs continued beyond that because bureaucrats kept using the federal support without implementing means of weaning people and programs off the federal funding and returning to local support.

To this day, Conservatives and Libertarians are still fighting to remove these TEMPORARY social programs from federal govt, while Democrats and other liberal progressives and socialists want to keep them there.

You are right, there are SOME liberal Republicans playing the same career politics as Democrats and not weaning states off federal funds, but prolonging the process while these politicians benefit either way.

But that is why both parties are split. Because there ARE Conservatives in both R and D parties OPPOSED to the dependence on federal govt. If you notice, the REAL Conservatives from Hannity to Levin denounce and distance themselves from Liberal Republicans that compromise Constitutional limits and prolong the liberal abuses of federal govt for social legislation that formally belongs to people and state jurisdiction.

It is not fair or accurate to say the same people calling for independence are calling federal govt to step in. You are right that this IS contradictory, and that's why Conservative Republicans yell so much about hypocrite sellouts corrupting the party by defeating their own values.

If we the people enforce the Constitution directly instead of relying on feds, we become our own govt.

That is the end goal of Conservative approaches, not more dependence but returning to independence, as before the Great Depression and consequent legislation created temporary federal support programs that were never agreed on as permanent.

 

[tyroneweaver]

Abbott was far from the firstRepublican to deploy such blatantly false talking points in response to the ongoing crisis in Texas, which has left at least 10 people dead. But the governor's decision to appear on Fox News and attack a policy that has not even been implemented as Texans resorted to burning their belongingsto keep their children warm was viewed as yet another example of his failed leadership.

'He is lying -- people are dying': Calls for Texas governor to resign as he blames power outages on wind and solar

As millions of Texans struggled desperately to keep warm amid power outages stemming from the devastating winter storm sweeping the nation, the state's Republican governor late Tuesday blamed solar and wind for the blackouts—despite the fact that Texas relies overwhelmingly on fossil fuels—and...

www.rawstory.com

Looks like green energy is getting firmly shoved up the rights ass. Which is amazing since that’s where their heads are.

What did abbot do
Intentionally called in the storm and put it in nursing homes

 

[22lcidw]

It’s mostly hydrocarbons.

Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes

Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness.

www.bloomberg.com

Lying on teevee to score cheap political points with a group who think the election was stolen and Obama was born in Kenya continues to demonstrate how anti-intellectual the right was devolved.

Progs are expensive. Without government you would be the lowest levels of humanity. Everything is government can do this, government can do that. Government has its uses for structure. It just depends on how much of it we all have. Things that go wrong and are rare has to be balanced with the costs associated. There are private side concerns that are questionable. But there are public side concerns also questionable.

 

[tyroneweaver]

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Biden’s order could let China control U.S. electric grid

 

[Bobob]

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Green energy is so very problematic. Everywhere you find it issues arise.

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This is a Texas problem since they have their own regulations, or not, to deal with
energy problems. It is surely not the fault of green energy. this governor is simply passing the buck instead of taking responsibility, much like Trump used to do.
"The extreme cold is causing the entire system to freeze up," said Jason Bordoff, a former energy official in the Obama administration and director of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy. "All sources of energy are underperforming in the extreme cold because they're not designed to handle these unusual conditions."

The ripple effects are being felt around the nation as Texas' prolific oil-and-gas industry stumbles.

 

[Mac-7]

Abbott is a friggin disgrace. A Governor who goes on Fox News to lie about the causes of electrical outages while his residents die has no business leading a state. He should resign. The next Governor, hopefully, will then deal with the crisis by focusing on the health and safety of his residents rather than lying to make political points.

While people were dying and suffering, he was telling Hannity how bad the Green New Deal would be.

GQP politicians know is to toss out scare tactics and conspiracies, because they know it works for the base.

I am all for holding Abbott’s feet to the fire.

That’s what it takes to get any politicians attention

But he is not the energy czar of Texas.

That honor goes to ERCOT - Energy unReliability Council of Texas

They are not elected but do fall under the authority of the Texas Legislature.

So the first people with some explaining to do are elected officials from the governor down to senators and representatives

However I still have not heard a better explanation for the immediate problem than the failure of green energy to deliver as promised