Posted on 02/21/2021 7:45:11 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
How could this happen in a state that is the nation’s biggest energy producer and home to several of the world’s biggest energy companies?
The disaster can be traced to mistakes by Texas’ leadership and faults created by decades of opposition to more regulations and preparation.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Forget about Global Warming just worry about Spring Summer Fall Winter
I wanna' hurl.
Yahoo, go investigate your favorite (or maybe second favorite) governor on how many elderly he sent to die...
> How could this happen in a state that is the nation’s biggest energy producer and home to several of the world’s biggest energy companies? <
Venezuelans are asking pretty much the same thing. In both cases could it be due to feel-good polices that sound nice, but don’t work in the real world? Naw, that can’t be it.
Do your job and everything moves along. Nobody notices. What will the left say about DeSantis when the next hurricane hits Florida? The answer is the same thing they said about W after Katrina. These people need to be squished like a bug. Trump knew it. Just don’t give them ammunition to pile on with like Cruz did.
The gaslight media is gonna gaslight. Windpower failed, putting so much extra strain on natgas generation that some of it also failed, which almost then cascaded into total disaster.
Were wind and solar the only systems that failed?
Don’t need to go father than this. Everybody outside of Texas is extremely jealous that we have been fairly successful with a deregulated power grid. We don’t need someone ‘smarter’ than us to tell us how to do it.. We can simply pay the people with the best ideas to implement them.
Now that is rich. Democrats have been warning for decades that the earth was going to die of global warming heat, that we would never have snow again, never have winter again. I don't remember ANY Democrat warning that winter was going to wreak havoc. That's just preposterous -- but it's a typical MSM prevarication. They'll do anything to ignore the true past to blame Republicans.
Of course not, there were many things that happened. A ‘perfect storm’ you might say.
Still, the grid did not go down, and the rolling blackouts only lasted three days. Not the weeks like those experienced in CA.
Yep, it’s weak-minded liberals buying into the nonstop apocalyptic predictions by know-nothings that the world is going to burst into flames any year now. Then weak-minded people like Gates want to block out the sun to prevent that from happening.
Instead, the interglacial period is ending and we are headed for the long deep freeze.
“...and faults created by decades of opposition to more regulations and preparation. “
Say this and thought WTF? THen saw “Yahoo News” and promptly knew that this was NOT where one could get any kind of information based on technical and engineering considerations.
Journalism. When even a studies degree is far too difficult.
He should have flipped the finger at his critics and spent the week in Cancun with his wife and children.
They are trying to make hay of the idea that the cold front was only barely mentioned in the February 9, ERCOT board meeting. As if the ERCOT board should be physically managing the day-to-day activities of the ERCOT staff.
Idiots.
Look to see who owns most of the windmills and where they were made
Article is extremely biased against Republicans and even though it pointed out some facts it left out many others that are very relevant to what actual happened.
If Texas had kept the three coal powered plants the Feds made them close this would not have happened.
The ERCOT board is in for a soul-burning scorch, then the Texans will roll up there sleeves and institute a few measures that will go far to assure that this situation is never again as serious in the future. Happened once, does not mean it cannot repeat.
Consider this a learning experience.
Many things came together at a specific moment in time that all contributed in their part to this situation. Texas has had other versions of this event only in a different style.
Hurricanes, tornadoes destroy the facilities/structures but
generally in a much smaller scale. Life goes on and Texas
will make adjustments an hopefully that will help for the
future anomalies.
Seeing where the article comes from,, I give it absolutely no credibility.
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