“Wow. Your post is full of inaccuracies.”
Actually it’s other way around. You couldn’t come up with a solution that made sense, so, as I predicted, you’re in favor of the status quo and the disaster it caused. Tell your fellow Texans who have had to leave their home deal with broken pipes and contaminated water that it’s just like the toilet paper shortage. I’m sure they’ll feel very comforted.
Glad to hear that you have been to China, so I’m sure you agree with me that it’s anything but an anti private property communist regime. To see that you have to go to Cuba or NK.
Though we do agree that you can’t have one-way free trade, that it has to be something where both sides benefit. And I don’t blame the Chinese for taking advantage of us, I blame are idiots in Washington for letting the Chinese walk all over us. Or maybe they’re not idiots, just incredibly corrupt scums on the take, like the current white house resident.
Don’t worry. We can make adjustments. Always remember:
1) The rolling blackouts only lasted 3 days; not weeks on end like in CA
2) We did not hit any capacity limitations on our grid; we only had plants that did not perform; this can and will be addressed
3) I see no benefit to joining the ERCOT grid with one of the other two grids in the contiguous U.S.; such a move pits our unsubsidized generation plants against subsidized generation plants and that is not free trade
Peace.
The electric grid may be largely recovered, but the longer term problems are still huge. The broken water pipes and water damage over a very large region are going to take time & money to repair. And apparently, many refineries’ operations went down and are slow to restart:
(dated 2/19)