In before the Cruz h8ters.
A politician that didn’t make excuses for a failure. Rather refreshing. Now fix it.
Well in this at least he’s honest.
CC
Ted, were YOU responsible for putting failed green energy on the grid? If you were not, you need apologize to no one.
Oh, I have your defense
Texas is experiencing an extraordinary event not seen in 30 years
California, OTH, is a broken system year after year that lacks capacity and redundancy or resilience for conditions which are persistent throughout each year
Okay Ted,
You’ve admitted your mistake.
Now what are you going to do about it is what matters?
Wind and Solar are only good as backups.....
There is no defense. The Republicans have solidly dominated Texas politics since 1995. Bush was Governor, the Rick Perry, now Abbott.
The dismantling of Texas formerly reliable coal fired grid and the move to the ugly and undependable windmills and solar happened under Perry. (Abbott was his AG)
T Boone Pickens sold them on this, they all got wealth and power, and they screwed Texas.
Here’s a defense: the same sort of green energy nonsense has been advanced in both states. The huge investment in wind and solar was folly, and should have been seen as such before this cold snap because both are unreliable.
Would it not be reasonable to expect that a large winter storm could impair both? Certainly. But the possibility of any disruption was constantly downplayed by those pressing alternative energy.
Now, a further defense would be that much of California’s problems lay with two more areas not shared by Texas.
First, while Texas may have misallocated effort by building wind and solar we have at least been trying to keep ahead of the curve, where California has issues simmering for decades.
Second the mismanagement of California’s forest have created fires that further exasperated their power grid problems. This is not a problem Texas has had, even in East Texas.
Well, we Texans have got a good look at the future being pimped by Hop Sing Pedo Xoe Xiden and his little toddler idiot, Gretal Turdburg. Regardless of what the maggots at abc and MSN are trying to pimp, their phony ass windmills don’t work. Sorry.
what a refreshing idea. not trying to justify what you said
what a refreshing idea. not trying to justify what you said
Easy.
Texas had power outages due to a freak once in 50 year storm....California has power outages due to summer.
I'm disappointed in Cruz on this issue. Normally, he'd completely dismantle this specious comparison.
The recent weather is rare, but solar and wind are not dependable. How was he to know?
OK.
Now to move on past that,.......
What are you going to do moving forward so as to protect your state from this kind of debacle again?
I despise the Ted Cruz hate on FR.
Cruz does not set Texas energy policy.
Our state legislature does and they are green hacks.
California’s problems are yearly due to their policies. The entire state of Texas is undergoing a natural winter storm that appears to be a once-in-a-hundred year event. Shoulda had de-icers on those turbines. That’s short-sighted. California’s problems are an ongoing self-flagellation.
Actually he’s has a pretty good defense in its due to mechanical failure due to unforeseen weather.
In California it’s just incompetence - at best.