Gas prices shooting up...

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Reason10

The picture proves that wind power is unreliable and idiotic. Texas is a state rich in petroleum and natural gas energy sources. The blackouts were caused by the wind power...

McMurdo Station in Antartica uses wind turbines, as does nearly every country in northern Europe and many northern US states and Canada. The Texas utility companies are unregulated and were allowed to put in unwinterized systems for wind, gas, coal, and nuclear and all of them failed.

You really are an idiot who seems to get his news exclusively from NewsMax, OANN, Epoch Times, Fox News and other purveyors of lies meant to outrage and misinform gullible fools like you.

[Chicks]

No, The Blackouts In Texas Weren't Caused By Renewables. Here's What Really Happened

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-up...eally-happened

Sorry, idiot Trumpkin trolls. You've been lied to - again.

[Rajoo]

And here comes the bills!

Texas did not want to regulate electricity and wanted the cost market driven and guess what? The wholesale cost of power jumped from $50/mwh to $9,000/mwh. So now faced with some massive electricity bills, the wringing of the hands and feeling of helplessness settles in. Hope they are not looking for a handout from the 47 states which are on a shared grid. Let the Texas exceptionalism deal with it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...0-000-n1258362

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Reason10

Woke Cancel Culture idiots, find someone with an education to 'splain this to you.

That certainly wouldn't be YOU.

Have you noticed that gas prices fluctuate all the time regardless of who is in office? I remember them going under a dollar during the Clinton Administration and over $4 a gallon during the GWB Administration.........

So what does any of it have to do with the president? Any president?

Run along propeller head.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by finnbow

McMurdo Station in Antartica uses wind turbines, as does nearly every country in northern Europe and many northern US states and Canada. The Texas utility companies are unregulated and were allowed to put in unwinterized systems for wind, gas, coal, and nuclear and all of them failed.

You really are an idiot who seems to get his news exclusively from NewsMax, OANN, Epoch Times, Fox News and other purveyors of lies meant to outrage and misinform gullible fools like you.

That's what it looks like to me. This gas bag is a total hoot, isn't he?

[Rajoo]

Texas residents solely bear responsibility on this. They were the ones who wanted the electricity generators to produce and sell at market and did not want them regulated. So why would these generators need to winterize and or add backup capacity if they are challenged to produce power at lowest cost when historically a winter ice storm only occurs once in a decade.

Also they wanted to establish their own independent electricity grid and specifically did not want the 'Feds' to regulate their power distribution. So you come up short, SOL. The blame game will go around, more nail biting and in the end nothing will be done. It takes serious investment and TX has no state income tax which they incessantly brag about to draw business out of other states.

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

It takes serious investment and TX has no state income tax which they incessantly brag about to draw business out of other states.

Businesses large and small will now think twice about moving to TX (Elon Musk sure is having second thoughts, lol). Without a reliable supply of electricity, plus cutting off all their employees from even remote access during the soon-to-be far more common "100 year" events will be a serious issue. Not to mention all the deplorables (outside of Austin) they'd have to put up with in many parts of TX.

[Mark B]

I've donated to help the people hurting in Texas. Most of them have no control over their utility suppliers lack of due diligence.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Mark B

I've donated to help the people hurting in Texas. Most of them have no control over their utility suppliers lack of due diligence.

I hold the voters responsible for electing their government and thus deserve the government they get. For the 2020 general election, Gov. Abbot decreed that only one drop off station for votes per county. And they stood by his decision while the state supreme court upheld it. So no, I have no sympathy for Texans.

[Oerets]

With the power being off for so many for so long.
Could it be their hope in that the masses are unaware?

Sorry, but I pay my rightful share in taxes to the federal government every year. Have since my teens.
Feel it is their job, yes duty to help out now.