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?
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.
“...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.
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.
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.
“The disaster can be traced to mistakes by Texas’ leadership and faults created by decades of opposition to more regulations and preparation.”
This part I AGREE WITH. To the power producers, they will have lost 1% of production (this year) by being forced to shut down last week. Not bad, considering that winterizing would have cost them nearly 3% higher production cost, year after year.
So they did the right thing, FOR THEIR SHAREHOLDERS - took the 1% down time, but saved the 3% cost for something that only occurs every 20 years or so.
However, how many frozen-out Texans are thanking their power providers for saving them the 3% this weekend?
That’s why the pointy-headed libertarian concept of a free market, without regulation DOES NOT WORK in a free country. Hopefully the Republicans are going to GET THE POINT, because if they’re not seen to be ‘getting it’, then they will be replaced by others who will at least promise to ‘get it’ (even though they’ll also fail).
The Left will NEVER get my vote (other when the Republicans in Texas tried to change our freeways into toll roads, but that’s another discussion) - but millions of Republican voters WILL SWITCH, if their Republican representatives continue to side with the lobbyists demanding no regulations for power producers.
Wind and solar are fine when used to supplement the energy resources however this fiasco in Texas is a lesson to not rely on these sources of energy. Gas/coal/nuclear way more reliable in crunch time and Texas is going to have to winterize these sectors as well to prevent a future deep freeze outages.
I agree.... Some people who are responsible for this disaster need to answer to this....
One thing we need to repeat over and over is that PEOPLE DIED because of the leftists pushing the lie of wind and solar. Commie democrat lies killed people and they will kill many more if we do not stop them.
Strange how this only affected Texas and not the states north of it. Magic I guess.
What a pantload full of BS...
What reason, other than arrogance, would TX have to want to be the only state to isolate themselves from all the other contiguous states? Electric grids are a low-tech, inexpensive system that more-or-less guarantees continuous power, with other benefits, and is common in most developed countries.