Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold

[EvilCat Breath]

Would never have happened under Trump's watch.

Not only would it have happened under Trump's watch (Biden hasn't been in the WH long enough to have done anything about it), it probably would have been worse. Just look at Trump's appalling record with regard to COVID.

That's funny.
Joe was either sleeping, go karting, or celebrating unmasked since Jan 20th.
He's out of his depth.
Hope you have the stamina to defend him for 4 years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than the blob.

Yeah, 70'000 Covid dead.
Texas in blackouts.
Big gaping hole in Mexican border.
China given green light to continue with concentration camps.
Americans still waiting for bread crumbs Covid cheque.
Women's sports destroyed.
Anti White ethos returned to schools.

LOL...

Fake news.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

Thats a piss poor retort.

Its designed to set you off. And it's working. Hope you can keep this up for four years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

For China. Certainly. Chicom Joe is the best president China ever had.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

Why is it freezing windmills in Taxas?
Were'nt we told to prepare for global warming?

You confuse climate with weather. Global warming doesn't mean you don't have frigid days in winter.

In places that do not have frigid weather? No.

It could be that this is just caused by the same sunspot minimum that legitimate scientists have been warning about for years.

in Roman times they grew grapes in England. Almost impossible today as it's colder.

 

[candycorn]

Would never have happened under Trump's watch.

Not only would it have happened under Trump's watch (Biden hasn't been in the WH long enough to have done anything about it), it probably would have been worse. Just look at Trump's appalling record with regard to COVID.

That's funny.
Joe was either sleeping, go karting, or celebrating unmasked since Jan 20th.
He's out of his depth.
Hope you have the stamina to defend him for 4 years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than the blob.

Yeah, 70'000 Covid dead.
Texas in blackouts.
Big gaping hole in Mexican border.
China given green light to continue with concentration camps.
Americans still waiting for bread crumbs Covid cheque.
Women's sports destroyed.
Anti White ethos returned to schools.

LOL...

Fake news.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

Thats a piss poor retort.

Its designed to set you off. And it's working. Hope you can keep this up for four years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

For China. Certainly. Chicom Joe is the best president China ever had.

For Americans....he's doing a great job.

PS: A black woman is Vice President. That's gotta drive you insane.

 

[Dana7360]

Bloomberg (Green) advised Texans to rely on freaking windmills (stalled on ice) and solar energy (covered in a foot of snow). Now it costs more money to de-ice a windmill than it's potential productivity.

You understand that the texas governor was shown to be lying when he blamed the power outages on windmills, don't you?

All anyone has to do is read the article at the link I provided to know the truth and it has nothing to do with windmills the green new deal.

In fact, the green new deal isn't law and has not been implemented.

The green new deal didn't exist in 1989 and 2011 when this happened.

The windmills didn't exist in 1989 when it happened. There wasn't many windmills in Texas in 2011.

Texas has had plenty of time and opportunity to fix this problem they've known about for a long time.

The article also clearly shows that the people in Texas have no desire to spend the money to fix the problem. Clearly when the people there say it's going to cost money which means money they don't want to spend.

Watch, Texas won't do anything to solve this problem unless they are forced to and can get money from the federal government to do it.

Texas puts money and private business before life.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

Would never have happened under Trump's watch.

Not only would it have happened under Trump's watch (Biden hasn't been in the WH long enough to have done anything about it), it probably would have been worse. Just look at Trump's appalling record with regard to COVID.

That's funny.
Joe was either sleeping, go karting, or celebrating unmasked since Jan 20th.
He's out of his depth.
Hope you have the stamina to defend him for 4 years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than the blob.

Yeah, 70'000 Covid dead.
Texas in blackouts.
Big gaping hole in Mexican border.
China given green light to continue with concentration camps.
Americans still waiting for bread crumbs Covid cheque.
Women's sports destroyed.
Anti White ethos returned to schools.

LOL...

Fake news.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

Thats a piss poor retort.

Its designed to set you off. And it's working. Hope you can keep this up for four years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

For China. Certainly. Chicom Joe is the best president China ever had.

For Americans....he's doing a great job.

PS: A black woman is Vice President. That's gotta drive you insane.

She's mainly Indian, with an Irish slave owner Great grandparent who married an African slave.
More Irish than black.
Like I give a fuck.
I want Candace Owens to be the next President.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Would never have happened under Trump's watch.

Not only would it have happened under Trump's watch (Biden hasn't been in the WH long enough to have done anything about it), it probably would have been worse. Just look at Trump's appalling record with regard to COVID.

That's funny.
Joe was either sleeping, go karting, or celebrating unmasked since Jan 20th.
He's out of his depth.
Hope you have the stamina to defend him for 4 years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than the blob.

Yeah, 70'000 Covid dead.
Texas in blackouts.
Big gaping hole in Mexican border.
China given green light to continue with concentration camps.
Americans still waiting for bread crumbs Covid cheque.
Women's sports destroyed.
Anti White ethos returned to schools.

LOL...

Fake news.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

Thats a piss poor retort.

Its designed to set you off. And it's working. Hope you can keep this up for four years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

For China. Certainly. Chicom Joe is the best president China ever had.

For Americans....he's doing a great job.

PS: A black woman is Vice President. That's gotta drive you insane.

A whore that sucked dick to get where shes at is vice president.

I laugh.

 

[candycorn]

Would never have happened under Trump's watch.

Not only would it have happened under Trump's watch (Biden hasn't been in the WH long enough to have done anything about it), it probably would have been worse. Just look at Trump's appalling record with regard to COVID.

That's funny.
Joe was either sleeping, go karting, or celebrating unmasked since Jan 20th.
He's out of his depth.
Hope you have the stamina to defend him for 4 years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than the blob.

Yeah, 70'000 Covid dead.
Texas in blackouts.
Big gaping hole in Mexican border.
China given green light to continue with concentration camps.
Americans still waiting for bread crumbs Covid cheque.
Women's sports destroyed.
Anti White ethos returned to schools.

LOL...

Fake news.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

Thats a piss poor retort.

Its designed to set you off. And it's working. Hope you can keep this up for four years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

For China. Certainly. Chicom Joe is the best president China ever had.

For Americans....he's doing a great job.

PS: A black woman is Vice President. That's gotta drive you insane.

She's mainly Indian, with an Irish slave owner Great grandparent who married an African slave.
More Irish than black.
Like I give a fuck.
I want Candace Owens to be the next President.

Tipsy is a well known racist. You're just a little known hemorrhoid on the ass of humanity.

PS: Biden is doing a great job.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Would never have happened under Trump's watch.

Not only would it have happened under Trump's watch (Biden hasn't been in the WH long enough to have done anything about it), it probably would have been worse. Just look at Trump's appalling record with regard to COVID.

That's funny.
Joe was either sleeping, go karting, or celebrating unmasked since Jan 20th.
He's out of his depth.
Hope you have the stamina to defend him for 4 years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than the blob.

Yeah, 70'000 Covid dead.
Texas in blackouts.
Big gaping hole in Mexican border.
China given green light to continue with concentration camps.
Americans still waiting for bread crumbs Covid cheque.
Women's sports destroyed.
Anti White ethos returned to schools.

LOL...

Fake news.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

Thats a piss poor retort.

Its designed to set you off. And it's working. Hope you can keep this up for four years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

For China. Certainly. Chicom Joe is the best president China ever had.

For Americans....he's doing a great job.

PS: A black woman is Vice President. That's gotta drive you insane.

She's mainly Indian, with an Irish slave owner Great grandparent who married an African slave.
More Irish than black.
Like I give a fuck.
I want Candace Owens to be the next President.

Tipsy is a well known racist. You're just a little known hemorrhoid on the ass of humanity.

PS: Biden is doing a great job.

What has Biden DONE?

He told us that we could all get vaccines by April. Now he's pushed it back to the end of July. Now he says we may not return to normal until 2022.

He set a "goal" of 1 million vaccines a day. Which was LESS than we were doing the day Trump left office.

He signed a bunch of EO's that do nothing but open the border to illegals.

So what has he done that's been so great? I'm curious.

 

[Dana7360]

This is the third time this has happened.

It comes down to deregulation. The people of Texas want no regulations so this is what they get.

Their electricity is privatized. There are no regulations or any consequences for not upgrading and winterizing. There are suggestions. That's it.

So because it's all privatized profit is put first. Not human life. Thus people are dying in Texas because profit for a private company is more important.

That last time it happened the federal government did an assessment, gave the state a report of what is wrong and how to fix it. The state and the private companies did nothing.

This is going to keep happening because money is more important than human life in Texas.

The people of Texas aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again. The private companies aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Yet where did the Texans run quickly run to first?

You guessed it, the federal government. Biden is sending help. I thought the scariest words in the English language were "I'm from the federal government and here to help." Whatever happened to that conservative "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and " take personal responsibility?"

Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold

(Bloomberg) -- Federal regulators warned Texas that its power plants couldn’t be counted on to reliably churn out electricity in bitterly cold conditions a decade ago, when the last deep freeze plunged 4 million people into the dark.They recommended that utilities use more insulation, heat pipes...

finance.yahoo.com

The whole damned country is in this kind of shape for God's sakes.

Well..I can't speak to everywhere...but the Pacific Northwest begs to differ with you. We got plenty of power..and pretty cheap too! Infrastructure is strong and relatively new. Idaho as well.

Yup.

We don't have fossil fuel creating energy here.

It's water, wind, solar, natural gas and a small nuclear facility.

We don't lose power when it gets cold. We do lose power when the wind knocks trees down and into power lines.

It has nothing to do with our windmills. They don't freeze even though they are out in the area that gets below freezing temperatures for months on end. From December to April.

We also bury the natural gas pipelines deep enough so they aren't affected by long months of freezing temperatures.

That is because we are responsible and put human life before money and a private company.

We have more electricity than we use and sell it to other states for a profit while having the second lowest electric rates in the nation.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

Would never have happened under Trump's watch.

Not only would it have happened under Trump's watch (Biden hasn't been in the WH long enough to have done anything about it), it probably would have been worse. Just look at Trump's appalling record with regard to COVID.

That's funny.
Joe was either sleeping, go karting, or celebrating unmasked since Jan 20th.
He's out of his depth.
Hope you have the stamina to defend him for 4 years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than the blob.

Yeah, 70'000 Covid dead.
Texas in blackouts.
Big gaping hole in Mexican border.
China given green light to continue with concentration camps.
Americans still waiting for bread crumbs Covid cheque.
Women's sports destroyed.
Anti White ethos returned to schools.

LOL...

Fake news.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

Thats a piss poor retort.

Its designed to set you off. And it's working. Hope you can keep this up for four years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

For China. Certainly. Chicom Joe is the best president China ever had.

For Americans....he's doing a great job.

PS: A black woman is Vice President. That's gotta drive you insane.

She's mainly Indian, with an Irish slave owner Great grandparent who married an African slave.
More Irish than black.
Like I give a fuck.
I want Candace Owens to be the next President.

Tipsy is a well known racist. You're just a little known hemorrhoid on the ass of humanity.

PS: Biden is doing a great job.

Tell that to the folk who lost their jobs.
The people paying more for insulin.
And those on the border faced with more crime dut to the hole in the wall.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

Imagine signing an EO banning the use of the term "China Virus" when more pressing matters like the vaccine, jobs and security was being ignored.
Sometimes I think Biden is punking us.

 

[cnm]

Bloomberg (Green) advised Texans to rely on freaking windmills (stalled on ice) and solar energy (covered in a foot of snow). Now it costs more money to de-ice a windmill than it's potential productivity.

Jesus.

 

[flacaltenn]

This is the third time this has happened.

It comes down to deregulation. The people of Texas want no regulations so this is what they get.

Their electricity is privatized. There are no regulations or any consequences for not upgrading and winterizing. There are suggestions. That's it.

So because it's all privatized profit is put first. Not human life. Thus people are dying in Texas because profit for a private company is more important.

That last time it happened the federal government did an assessment, gave the state a report of what is wrong and how to fix it. The state and the private companies did nothing.

This is going to keep happening because money is more important than human life in Texas.

The people of Texas aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again. The private companies aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Yet where did the Texans run quickly run to first?

You guessed it, the federal government. Biden is sending help. I thought the scariest words in the English language were "I'm from the federal government and here to help." Whatever happened to that conservative "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and " take personal responsibility?"

Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold

(Bloomberg) -- Federal regulators warned Texas that its power plants couldn’t be counted on to reliably churn out electricity in bitterly cold conditions a decade ago, when the last deep freeze plunged 4 million people into the dark.They recommended that utilities use more insulation, heat pipes...

finance.yahoo.com

When the Fed govt IS FORCING Texas to spend tons of bucks on wind, solar, and grid scale battery follies -- There's not much money or time left to worry about fossil plants like the Nat Gas stations that regulate the sketchy, unreliable wind production.. And when the goal is to PHASE OUT all these fossil plants -- WHAT IDIOT WOULD INVEST IN THEM?? The Dems are making everyone recite the mantra about this "existential climate emergency that gonna kill all 5th graders before they graduate HS" -- So everything THEY DO on power infrastructure is more worried about the threat of a future WARMER world...

 

[meaner gene]

The article also clearly shows that the people in Texas have no desire to spend the money to fix the problem. Clearly when the people there say it's going to cost money which means money they don't want to spend.

Texas prides itself.

The Texas Constitution forbids personal income taxes.

 

[meaner gene]

Imagine signing an EO banning the use of the term "China Virus" when more pressing matters like the vaccine, jobs and security was being ignored.
Sometimes I think Biden is punking us.

The interesting part is suddenly texas isn't talking about seceding from the union. After the federal government comes in to save them. They'll forget about the benefits of being part of a great union.

 

[meaner gene]

When the Fed govt IS FORCING Texas to spend tons of bucks on wind, solar, and grid scale battery follies -- There's not much money or time left to worry about fossil plants like the Nat Gas stations that regulate the sketchy, unreliable wind production..

Really? Why did Trump do that.

Texas power grid was the legacy of Trumps America.

 

[Dana7360]

The article also clearly shows that the people in Texas have no desire to spend the money to fix the problem. Clearly when the people there say it's going to cost money which means money they don't want to spend.

Texas prides itself.

The Texas Constitution forbids personal income taxes.

We don't have a personal income tax here either.

We have other taxes that Texas doesn't have.

 

[Leo123]

Pretty sure my not Texas power grid is going to fail me in the next 24-36 hours when the ice man cometh to Virginia. In the mean time, Californians are being warned now about the stupidity of their grid and overregulation of suppliers so it all averages out in the karma.

I live in CA and the only stupidity here is our government regulated utility who uses government regs to grow their personal coffers instead of upgrading and burying existing transmission lines. This has led to catastrophic fires caused by sparking wires and lawsuits in the Billions by ambulance-chasing lawyers lead by that nuke chick that have naturally negatively impacted utility bills for consumers.
Also, the environmentalists have seized power and have been systematically prohibiting the clearing of fuel loaded forests that were once kept away from electrical installations.

Bottom line, for a consumer that is not rich, there is no alternative but to pay outrageous power bills and have their power shut off when the wind blows. Even an owned net metering system is tied to the utility and the utility pays less for power generated by net metering systems than what they charge the consumer. It's another government clusterfuck.

 

[flacaltenn]

When the Fed govt IS FORCING Texas to spend tons of bucks on wind, solar, and grid scale battery follies -- There's not much money or time left to worry about fossil plants like the Nat Gas stations that regulate the sketchy, unreliable wind production..

Really? Why did Trump do that.

Texas power grid was the legacy of Trumps America.

Trump curtailed a lot of that by accelerating the phase out of HUGE SUBSIDIES for building in wind and solar. Where were you?

Warren Buffet has said frequently that no one would BUILD out massive wind projects without those subsidies. You're full of rabid partisan whore Bovine Scatology.. And you're good at that, but it's worth zip..

 

[Lesh]

I want Candace Owens to be the next President.

Of Ireland?

The Russian Federation?