Trump was 100% correct....again.
.This is the third time this has happened.
It comes down to deregulation. The people of Texas want no regulations so this is what they get.
Their electricity is privatized. There are no regulations or any consequences for not upgrading and winterizing. There are suggestions. That's it.
So because it's all privatized profit is put first. Not human life. Thus people are dying in Texas because profit for a private company is more important.
That last time it happened the federal government did an assessment, gave the state a report of what is wrong and how to fix it. The state and the private companies did nothing.
This is going to keep happening because money is more important than human life in Texas.
The people of Texas aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again. The private companies aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Yet where did the Texans run quickly run to first?
You guessed it, the federal government. Biden is sending help. I thought the scariest words in the English language were "I'm from the federal government and here to help." Whatever happened to that conservative "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and " take personal responsibility?"
Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold
(Bloomberg) -- 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...finance.yahoo.com
This is what happens when environmentalists get power. We get 0 power..This is the third time this has happened.
It comes down to deregulation. The people of Texas want no regulations so this is what they get.
Their electricity is privatized. There are no regulations or any consequences for not upgrading and winterizing. There are suggestions. That's it.
So because it's all privatized profit is put first. Not human life. Thus people are dying in Texas because profit for a private company is more important.
That last time it happened the federal government did an assessment, gave the state a report of what is wrong and how to fix it. The state and the private companies did nothing.
This is going to keep happening because money is more important than human life in Texas.
The people of Texas aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again. The private companies aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Yet where did the Texans run quickly run to first?
You guessed it, the federal government. Biden is sending help. I thought the scariest words in the English language were "I'm from the federal government and here to help." Whatever happened to that conservative "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and " take personal responsibility?"
Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold
(Bloomberg) -- 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...
Gov. Greg Abbott is ordering an investigation into ERCOT
Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted Tuesday, "The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has been anything but reliable over the past 48 hours. Far too many Texans are without power and heat for their homes as our state faces freezing temperatures and severe winter weather."
"I have issued an executive order adding an emergency legislative item to review the preparations and decisions by ERCOT so we can determine what caused this problem and find long-term solutions."
That was Abbott on Tuesday. Let’s wait a few months, after the chilling memories fade. Abbott’s concerns about, “‘Far too many Texans are without power and heat for their homes as our state faces freezing temperatures and severe winter weather,’” will be replaced with, “the cold weather was a unique occurrence that can never happen again.” Or something similar to ease the worries of those few remaining texans that haven’t put the power outage behind them.
It will be a simple task for the Republican controlled state to dismiss this problem. And their constituents will fully agree. Especially when the Electric Reliability Council of texas announces the proposed costs for the needed improvements to the red state texans’ power grid.
A minimal rebuild of the red state texans’ power grid will be much more expensive that building the system correctly the first time. But, regulations that require forethought and consideration of potential problems are not part of conservatives’ tunnel vision. Such anticipation of future needs is the province of liberalism. Those pesky, liberal regulations that red state texans simply cannot abide.
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Trump ran the federal government. He had to sign whatever legislation did that, or wrote whatever EO forced that upon Texas.
I'm just trying to understand which federal government forced Texas to install wind and solar.
Regardless of why red state texans added wind turbines to their power grid, the people that ordered the units, bought a product that was substandard to the needs of the intended application. Either through ignorance and an unwillingness to learn the necessary facts, arrogance in their own limited knowledge, or greed to keep profits up.
Texas isn't the only state that got cold. Poor planning has caused lots of problems in Texas. Our current problem and flooding are just two of those problems.The whole damned country is in this kind of shape for God's sakes.This is the third time this has happened.
It comes down to deregulation. The people of Texas want no regulations so this is what they get.
Their electricity is privatized. There are no regulations or any consequences for not upgrading and winterizing. There are suggestions. That's it.
So because it's all privatized profit is put first. Not human life. Thus people are dying in Texas because profit for a private company is more important.
That last time it happened the federal government did an assessment, gave the state a report of what is wrong and how to fix it. The state and the private companies did nothing.
This is going to keep happening because money is more important than human life in Texas.
The people of Texas aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again. The private companies aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Yet where did the Texans run quickly run to first?
You guessed it, the federal government. Biden is sending help. I thought the scariest words in the English language were "I'm from the federal government and here to help." Whatever happened to that conservative "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and " take personal responsibility?"
Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold
(Bloomberg) -- 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...
Which other states are having the massive power outages that Texas is suffering through?
If they had 29 million people and what, 20-25M households all turning on the heater at the same time...their grid would be damaged too.
Texas is a shot hole of epic proportions....its the 7th grader who's 18 years old and thinks it's funny that he can't advance to the 8th grade and swears the system is wrong; not him.
But hell...it just got cold. Nobody will remember this in a week.
Infrastructure-wise; Texas flooding is the real chronic disaster. There will be flooding in Houston again this Summer like there always is. It was that way in the 80's when I lived there. They haven't fixed a thing in 40 years. But the governors have all "cut spending to the bone."
Whenever their sh!t blows up in their faces, the right-wingers blame liberals. But, given the texans' hatred of regulations and being forced to do a job correctly, it's more than apparent that no liberal had any part in the design and building of the red state texans' pi$$ poor power grid.
I read that the Texas power grid is totally independent. It's not in any way connected to other states, and because of that it's not regulated under interstate commerce, specifically the FERC has no regulatory authority in Texas.
Texas alone sets standards for their power infrastructure.
Home Page
www.ferc.gov
FERC, pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, finalized on February 2, 2006, landmark new rules on the certification of an Electric Reliability Organization and the procedures for the establishment, approval and enforcement of mandatory electric reliability standards.
Texas must have believed the bullcrap liberals, and undoubtedly they thought the earth was warming extensively, and cold like that was a thing of the past, well good morning TEXAS, did you enjoy your sleep in liberal la-la land ???This is the third time this has happened.
It comes down to deregulation. The people of Texas want no regulations so this is what they get.
Their electricity is privatized. There are no regulations or any consequences for not upgrading and winterizing. There are suggestions. That's it.
So because it's all privatized profit is put first. Not human life. Thus people are dying in Texas because profit for a private company is more important.
That last time it happened the federal government did an assessment, gave the state a report of what is wrong and how to fix it. The state and the private companies did nothing.
This is going to keep happening because money is more important than human life in Texas.
The people of Texas aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again. The private companies aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Yet where did the Texans run quickly run to first?
You guessed it, the federal government. Biden is sending help. I thought the scariest words in the English language were "I'm from the federal government and here to help." Whatever happened to that conservative "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and " take personal responsibility?"
Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold
(Bloomberg) -- 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...
Words from another low IQ right-wing nut, with zero understanding of science... or anything else.Texas must have believed the bullcrap liberals, and undoubtedly they thought the earth was warming extensively, and cold like that was a thing of the past, well good morning TEXAS, did you enjoy your sleep in liberal la-la land ???This is the third time this has happened.
It comes down to deregulation. The people of Texas want no regulations so this is what they get.
Their electricity is privatized. There are no regulations or any consequences for not upgrading and winterizing. There are suggestions. That's it.
So because it's all privatized profit is put first. Not human life. Thus people are dying in Texas because profit for a private company is more important.
That last time it happened the federal government did an assessment, gave the state a report of what is wrong and how to fix it. The state and the private companies did nothing.
This is going to keep happening because money is more important than human life in Texas.
The people of Texas aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again. The private companies aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Yet where did the Texans run quickly run to first?
You guessed it, the federal government. Biden is sending help. I thought the scariest words in the English language were "I'm from the federal government and here to help." Whatever happened to that conservative "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and " take personal responsibility?"
Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold
(Bloomberg) -- 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...
This is the third time this has happened.
It comes down to deregulation. The people of Texas want no regulations so this is what they get.
Their electricity is privatized. There are no regulations or any consequences for not upgrading and winterizing. There are suggestions. That's it.
So because it's all privatized profit is put first. Not human life. Thus people are dying in Texas because profit for a private company is more important.
That last time it happened the federal government did an assessment, gave the state a report of what is wrong and how to fix it. The state and the private companies did nothing.
This is going to keep happening because money is more important than human life in Texas.
The people of Texas aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again. The private companies aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Yet where did the Texans run quickly run to first?
You guessed it, the federal government. Biden is sending help. I thought the scariest words in the English language were "I'm from the federal government and here to help." Whatever happened to that conservative "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and " take personal responsibility?"
Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold
(Bloomberg) -- 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...
Not all Texans agree with our leadership and after this I am guessing Abbot might be retiring after he loses his next run for office...
As I wrote in another thread this is a decades old issue that should have never happened but it did and it will never be fixed because those that run all this just care about the bottom line and even in deaths money will be made...
So I am leaving Texas as soon as I can and will head to Tennessee!
No abbot won't lose. He will be reelected when he runs for reelection.
The majority of the people in Texas put money before life.
They have had since 1989 to make changes. That was the first time this happened. They did nothing. Then it happened in 2011 again. They did nothing. The people of Texas have continually and consistently voted republicans to run their state. The people of Texas voted for this.
Nothing will change in Texas and people will keep dying.
