Posted on 01/09/2023 8:19:35 AM PST by RushingWater
Almost two years ago, the Texas energy grid came within minutes of total system failure, leaving 4.5 million Texas homes and businesses without power at its peak.
After the storm, it was painfully clear that the makeup of the Texas energy grid must be rebalanced, with an emphasis on electricity generated from cheap, plentiful and reliable natural gas and ensuring the natural gas energy supply chain was better weatherized to ensure operation during extreme weather conditions.
(Excerpt) Read more at mrt.com ...
Yeah, just got my gas bill and it was double from the previous month and more than double the same month last year - and I was gone for an entire week in mid-December with the heat shut off in the house.
The tyrants in the statehouse in California are trying to ban natural gas (no new lines are allowed in San Francisco) - and switch everyone over to electricity - as we suffer from rolling blackouts during heat waves and are told via numerous alerts NOT to plug in EVs or use major appliances because the system is overloaded.
Gee, it’s almost as if they’re trying to collapse the entire energy system, and the economy along with it.
What does Newsom care? He’ll head to Montana as he always does.
Wish I had a pipeline to my place. Got a plant just about 30 miles away but I’m on the wrong side of the lake. I would love me some nat gas. Propane is expensive.
I paid $2.95 per gallon for 250 gallons last month. I’m in central Texas.
2.98 here in Henderson County.
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