[butlerweave]

Forget about Global Warming just worry about Spring Summer Fall Winter

[beancounter13]

... faults created by decades of opposition to more regulations and preparation.

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.

[alloysteel]

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.