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I think Texans have learned the hard way that deregulation is not the utopia they thought is was.
Aside from their suffering and deaths due to the malfeasance of the operators right up to the Governor we see profiteering at a alarming rate.
States always spend billions on a 1 in 100 year freak storm.
How did you feel about hyper-regulated New York being flooded by Sandy?
Oh okay I’m getting the lay of the land.
You do know I’m sure that a very similar event happened in 2011 in Texas with predictably the same results for the people. Again ERCOT and Public Utility Commission had not winterize. Perhaps then the good folks of Texas should give those in charge a pass but following the 2011 episode both agencies were told by FERC as a recommendation since Texas is deregulated : to winterize and expand capacity.
Sandy on the other hand was a confluence of an extreme high tide couple with high storm surge.
No amount of preparedness can thwart that.
But I agree there are stupid laws and stupid regulations. However human beings are stronger together than apart. This is at least part of the problem as I see it for Texas. Deregulation has unleashed huge profiteering on the Texan people.No such thing happened to Sandy victims to my knowledge.