More Evidence that Big Tech is a censorship tool of the Biden Administration.

[citygator]

The only thing I could see in your link was the 2017 story....because I don't have a subscription to the WSJ.
The last link you posted was from a Feb 19, 2021 story.
At any rate....blaming one cold spell for raising the price 150% is bullshit.
It took more than a cold spell to do that....anyone can see that.
Only real change is the fart/shit machine in the Oval Office.

Nope. It’s reality. If you knew anything about polypropylene and polyvinyl chloride, what they are in, where they are produced, and how much production was lost, you wouldn’t be confused.

 

[mudwhistle]

Nope. It’s reality. If you knew anything about polypropylene and polyvinyl chloride, what they are in, where they are produced, and how much production was lost, you wouldn’t be confused.

My understanding is that PC and woke energy was the primary cause of the outage. The windmills froze, and because of you Democrats, they didn't have anything (fossil fuel options) to replace the shortage.

Your problem is you have to live in a vacuum to make your policies work. A few energy plants would have made the problem a blip. Now you folks think you can turn all of our cars into electric cars without considering the ramifications during a cold snap. I can see hybrid vehicles working....but not straight electric.
In a nutshell....your lack of foresight always leads to these unexpected yet predictable cost increases.

 

[citygator]

My understanding is that PC and woke energy was the primary cause of the outage.

You couldn’t be more wrong which is par for this thread. You realize we are talking about TEXAS? We are talking about the only state that runs its independent energy grid and refused to adhere to US federal government standards and thus was unprepared and ill-equipped to handle the freeze.

 

[mudwhistle]

You couldn’t be more wrong which is par for this thread. You realize we are talking about TEXAS? We are talking about the only state that runs its independent energy grid and refused to adhere to US federal government standards and thus was unprepared and ill-equipped to handle the freeze.

Okay.....show specifically what they did that wasn't following government standards...and thus caused the problem.
My understanding is this problem was in the Houston area.....and the reason for this was sabotage with respect to energy policies by liberals in that mostly Blue City. This is nothing new if you remember the sabotage by Democrats that took place after Hurricane Katrina in L.A. Houston had a lot of interference from tree-huggers, and for some strange reason they felt that renewable energy was the answer to everything. So they didn't make sure their natural gas plants were properly maintained. The truth is....any system isn't going to work if you don't run it and maintain it periodically.

If the entire energy grid in the United States were to be taken over by the Snowflakes that always seem to screw everything up......alot of people are going to die......and this is probably why Biden decided to tell everyone that we will all get sick and die this Winter. This is what they call a Freudian Slip.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Life imitates art. Big tech spying on Americans, using that info to get their way. you know all those zombie movies/the contagious virus killer movies? here we are.

 

[citygator]

Okay.....show specifically what they did that wasn't following government standards...and thus caused the problem.
My understanding is this problem was in the Houston area.....and the reason for this was sabotage with respect to energy policies by liberals in that mostly Blue City. This is nothing new if you remember the sabotage by Democrats that took place after Hurricane Katrina in L.A. Houston had a lot of interference from tree-huggers, and for some strange reason they felt that renewable energy was the answer to everything. So they didn't make sure their natural gas plants were properly maintained. The truth is....any system isn't going to work if you don't run it and maintain it periodically.

If the entire energy grid in the United States were to be taken over by the Snowflakes that always seem to screw everything up......alot of people are going to die......and this is probably why Biden decided to tell everyone that we will all get sick and die this Winter. This is what they call a Freudian Slip.

Sorry it took so long. Missed your response.

The Texas Power Grid and the Failure of Deregulation

While we need to mitigate climate change and will need government-driven public policy to do that, we must also adapt to the climate change that is already underway.

news.climate.columbia.edu

By now, the early message that the electricity blackout in Texas was a failure of renewable energy has been replaced by the far more complex reality of a grid not prepared for extreme weather. Texas takes pride in its free market–fueled economic environment that provides low-cost housing, cheap electricity, and plenty of personal transportation along with low taxes. The problem is that the absence of rules and governance can come back and create harm if you happen to live on a more crowded and complex planet, like the one we have here on Earth. Climate change, pandemics, traffic jams, toxic air, polluted water and poisoned land cannot be addressed by the free market alone. The market can be used to produce needed goods and services, but the idea that markets and civilization itself can survive without rules is absurd idiocy.

Texas this past week was a case in point. The electric grid in Texas is built for efficiency, but it is not built for climate resilience. As Katherine Blunt and Russell Gold reported in the Wall Street Journal:

“A fundamental flaw in the freewheeling Texas electricity market left millions powerless and freezing in the dark this week during a historic cold snap. The core problem: Power providers can reap rewards by supplying electricity to Texas customers, but they aren’t required to do it and face no penalties for failing to deliver during a lengthy emergency. That led to the fiasco that left millions of people in the nation’s second-most-populous state without power for days. A severe storm paralyzed almost every energy source, from power plants to wind turbines, because their owners hadn’t made the investments needed to produce electricity in subfreezing temperatures. While power providers collectively failed, the companies themselves didn’t break any rules.”

The quest for efficiency and low cost led to under-investment and energy facilities poorly prepared for cold weather. Texas does better in hot weather, but climate change is altering weather patterns and extreme weather events are becoming more common. While we need to mitigate climate change and will need government-driven public policy to do that, we must also adapt to the climate change that is already underway. That need to adapt also requires a more active government presence than the ideologues running Texas want to allow.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Sorry it took so long. Missed your response.

The Texas Power Grid and the Failure of Deregulation

While we need to mitigate climate change and will need government-driven public policy to do that, we must also adapt to the climate change that is already underway.

news.climate.columbia.edu

By now, the early message that the electricity blackout in Texas was a failure of renewable energy has been replaced by the far more complex reality of a grid not prepared for extreme weather. Texas takes pride in its free market–fueled economic environment that provides low-cost housing, cheap electricity, and plenty of personal transportation along with low taxes. The problem is that the absence of rules and governance can come back and create harm if you happen to live on a more crowded and complex planet, like the one we have here on Earth. Climate change, pandemics, traffic jams, toxic air, polluted water and poisoned land cannot be addressed by the free market alone. The market can be used to produce needed goods and services, but the idea that markets and civilization itself can survive without rules is absurd idiocy.

Texas this past week was a case in point. The electric grid in Texas is built for efficiency, but it is not built for climate resilience. As Katherine Blunt and Russell Gold reported in the Wall Street Journal:

“A fundamental flaw in the freewheeling Texas electricity market left millions powerless and freezing in the dark this week during a historic cold snap. The core problem: Power providers can reap rewards by supplying electricity to Texas customers, but they aren’t required to do it and face no penalties for failing to deliver during a lengthy emergency. That led to the fiasco that left millions of people in the nation’s second-most-populous state without power for days. A severe storm paralyzed almost every energy source, from power plants to wind turbines, because their owners hadn’t made the investments needed to produce electricity in subfreezing temperatures. While power providers collectively failed, the companies themselves didn’t break any rules.”

The quest for efficiency and low cost led to under-investment and energy facilities poorly prepared for cold weather. Texas does better in hot weather, but climate change is altering weather patterns and extreme weather events are becoming more common. While we need to mitigate climate change and will need government-driven public policy to do that, we must also adapt to the climate change that is already underway. That need to adapt also requires a more active government presence than the ideologues running Texas want to allow.

That is all cocksucking bullshit.

The FedGov's coerced UNreliable sources caused the blackout. They failed nearly 100%. By the time the failure had occurred, the natural gas capacity that had been shut down on orders from the FedGov had frozen. Had we still been using a higher percentage of natural gas capacity, the lines would not have frozen and no blackouts would have occurred.

FUCK your worthless, UNreliable "green" energy.

 

[citygator]

That is all cocksucking bullshit.

The FedGov's coerced UNreliable sources caused the blackout. They failed nearly 100%. By the time the failure had occurred, the natural gas capacity that had been shut down on orders from the FedGov had frozen. Had we still been using a higher percentage of natural gas capacity, the lines would not have frozen and no blackouts would have occurred.

FUCK your worthless, UNreliable "green" energy.

Apparently deregulation occurred in 2003 and its been a shit show of reliability because of it. Cheap energy doesn’t invest for once in a lifetime freezes. Regulated energy does. It’s in the article. Argue with her, not me.

 

[skews13]

I think making it a felony for politicians to collude with any media source would put a damper on Democrat's chances in the election.
I also think that if you made fraud a felony punishable by death Democrats wouldn't have a platform.

You mean like Trump colluding with Sean Hannity, Laura Ingrham, and Tucker Carlson?

I agree. We should definitely make that a felony, and the media hosts should be charged equally as codefendents, as they are no longer protected, because they are not journalists.

If you made fraud punishable by death, there wouldn't be a Republican left alive.

 

[skews13]

Apparently deregulation occurred in 2003 and its been a shit show of reliability because of it. Cheap energy doesn’t invest for once in a lifetime freezes. Regulated energy does. It’s in the article. Argue with her, not me.

Yep. Texas is on it's own grid, and not one dime of federal money should go to help Texas with anything energy related.