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Texas grid trouble offers warnings about Biden's anti-energy policies... Salena Zito
Washington Examiner ^ | February 16, 2021 07:19 PM | Salena Zito

Posted on 02/17/2021 8:51:29 AM PST by Hojczyk

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To: Billthedrill

Greenie activists will double down on stupid.


21 posted on 02/17/2021 10:18:09 AM PST by Fred Hayek (Antifa=BLM=RevCom=CPUSA = CCP=Democratic Party )
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To: Fred Hayek
Greenie activists will double down on stupid.

They’re out there pointing fingers and bellowing a lot of BS, trying to deflect any blame from their new green deal cr@p.

22 posted on 02/17/2021 10:32:46 AM PST by Allegra
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To: Hojczyk
*SALENA BUMP*

23 posted on 02/17/2021 10:37:15 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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“They [Dem policies] don’t just cost some guys job you’ll never meet,” said Allen of himself, “but when they start to impact being able to turn your heat on during a storm or your lights or your life, then it’s not just some guy you don’t know, then it’s you.”

“This is a forewarning of what can come, and the most illuminating question is, can this happen anywhere else?” said Kish. “And the answer is yes. We haven’t even seen the beginning of this yet.”

24 posted on 02/17/2021 10:43:32 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Nomad577

Every ten years is still often enough to make it worth it to winterize something.


25 posted on 02/17/2021 11:18:36 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: frank ballenger

>>Did you file a compliance form stating as with Northern toilet paper, you would plant trees to replace the ones you cut for firewood?<<

That’s hilarious if not...like scary. lol

We built a home up in the forest. Over eleven years you’ll have an oak die every now and again on the property or one needing cut down or back.

We’ve never run out of firewood in all those years. Moved out of the city to be more self sufficient. Horses, chickens/eggs, water well, propane/propane generator, garden and so forth. Been allot of work, but we love being a lil more self reliant and not competing with thousands of others in an urban environment for gas, food, water..not to mention thuggery.

Great idea regarding Cuomo and Kasich’s books for starter fuel. Already use Hillary’s as back up toilet paper. lol


26 posted on 02/17/2021 11:30:45 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: Hojczyk

Odd. Windmills work just fine in all sorts of cold places. Not that I give a crap about ‘green’, but whoever authored this piece is an ignorant idiot. Windmills have to be properly maintained, but the work quite well many places that are much colder.

Piss poor maintenance and slack-jawed idiots not also keeping the other sources of power online. Sheer incompetence


27 posted on 02/17/2021 11:34:57 AM PST by RedStateRocker ("Never miss a good chance to Shut Up" - Will Rogers)
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Great idea regarding Cuomo and Kasich’s books for starter fuel. Already use Hillary’s as back up toilet paper.

I tried Hillary's memoirs but the harshness caused irritation to my rear.

28 posted on 02/17/2021 11:50:19 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: frank ballenger

>>I tried Hillary’s memoirs but the harshness caused irritation to my rear.<<

Hilarious <-lol


29 posted on 02/17/2021 12:10:59 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: RedStateRocker

They may work, but one common factor of extreme cold, is no wind....here in Europe in the North, really cold days have no wind at all, for days on end.


30 posted on 02/17/2021 12:17:41 PM PST by crazycat
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To: crazycat

The work fine in Antarctica.

Just some idiots in Texas trying to shift blame from piss-poor maintenance of their grid. I saw some retard say ‘It only happens every 10 years or so’; I wanted to reply “Listen up, snowflake, earthquakes happen less frequently than that and I’m quite OK with jailing for life or hanging any government official or officer of any corporation that isn’t 100 percent prepared.

There is never, and can never be any excuse for loss of power, water, or security.


31 posted on 02/17/2021 12:24:49 PM PST by RedStateRocker ("Never miss a good chance to Shut Up" - Will Rogers)
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To: RedStateRocker

what about hurricanes?...


32 posted on 02/17/2021 12:40:18 PM PST by heavy metal (your reward will be in heaven not on your paycheck...)
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To: Hojczyk

THIS was a cold weather event redux, first performed in 1989, repeated in 2011 and again here in 2021. Temps this time matched those in 1989, before Texas went with a de-regulated electric market. Temps in 2011 only dipped into the teens instead of the single digits as in 1989 and 2021.

“Report on Outages and Curtailments During the Southwest Cold Weather Event of February 1-5, 2011”
2-01-2011 Feb 2 2011 ERCOT blackouts

https://www.balch.com/files/upload/NERC_8_16_2011_SW_Cold_Weather_Event_Final_Report.pdf

Doc also contains:

“Impact of Cold Weather on Gas Production in the Texas
and New Mexico Gas Production Regions of the United
States During early February, 2011”

“Winterization Document”
Prepared for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Prepared by Gas Technology Institute
by Kent F. Perry

An excerpt from pg 188:


Texas has recently enacted legislation to deal with the problem of inadequate winterization by generators. A bill was introduced in the Texas legislature following the February 2011 blackouts, with provisions directing the PUCT to prepare a weather emergency preparedness report, to review the emergency operations plans on file, and to recommend improvements to the plans to ensure electric service reliability. In introducing the bill, State Senator Glenn Hegar stated: “What I don’t want, is another storm and another report someone puts on the shelf for 21 years and nobody looks at.”

After a Senate Committee hearing, the bill was amended and unanimously adopted by the Texas Senate. The House unanimously passed the bill on May 23, and the bill was signed into law by Governor Richard Perry on June 17, 2011.


“February Power Blackouts Across Texas echoed 1989 Failures”
By Eric Dexheimer
Austin American-Statesman, Apr. 10, 2011
Posted Apr 11, 2011 at 12:01 AM
Updated Dec 12, 2018 at 10:13 AM
https://www.statesman.com/article/20110411/NEWS/304119704


33 posted on 02/17/2021 1:48:00 PM PST by _Jim (Save babies)
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