schmidlap
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The lies aside, the lack of regulation has resulted in enormous electric bills for some Texans, and Texas politicians, having refused to undertake the recommended measures, failed to defuse their ticking time bomb and inflicted unnecessary suffering and death as well as astronomical costs upon Texans.So according to the people who run and oversee the Texas electrical grid, the blackouts had nothing to do with wind turbines or the green new deal, which by the way isn't law or enacted by anyone, it was as has been said, they didn't winterize and didn't prepare for any problems caused by winter.
Their whole grid was on the verge of collapse.
Governor abbot hired her and she was paid over 200 thousand dollars a year.
Seems to me the people of Texas need to get a new governor and replace all the people who are in charge of their electrical grid. Those who are in charge now are total failures.
It was very cowardly of abbot and other republicans to lie about the cause of the mess.
Federal regulators warned Texas that its power plants couldn’t be counted on to reliably churn out electricity in bitterly cold conditions a decade ago, when the last deep freeze plunged 4 million people into the dark.
They recommended that utilities use more insulation, heat pipes and take other steps to winterize plants -- strategies commonly observed in cooler climates but not in normally balmy Texas...
As investigators probe the current power crisis in Texas, which has left millions of people without power or a promise of when it will be restored, questions are sure to be raised about how the state responded to the urgings from the 2011 analysis, issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North America Electric Reliability Corporation, which sets reliability standards.
The February 2011 incident occurred when an Arctic cold front descended on the Southwest, sending temperatures below freezing for four days in a row. The result was disastrous. Equipment and instruments froze, forcing the shutdown of power plants and rolling blackouts, according to the report.
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