I’m a Dem here in Texas. Our wind turbines froze.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FERC regs require winterization.

No they don’t.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FERC regs require winterization.

No they don’t.

FERC recommenced winterization to Texas but Texas does not have to comply with FERC’s recommendations.

[Anonymous]

Solar panels on the space station and the mars lander seem to do fine. So do the wind turbines in Antartica.

I don't think it is the technology.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Solar panels on the space station and the mars lander seem to do fine. So do the wind turbines in Antartica.

I don't think it is the technology.

It's the difference between dollar store pots & pans and good ones, like Le Creuset. Or even Home Depot quality.

When the handle of your dollar store pot falls off, that does not mean pots with handles can't work. It means your pots with handles are crappy quality and don't work, and that's because you didn't invest in any of any quality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Solar panels on the space station and the mars lander seem to do fine. So do the wind turbines in Antartica.

I don't think it is the technology.

Yea, typical weather in Texas is just like Antartica, orbital space, and Mars.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Solar panels on the space station and the mars lander seem to do fine. So do the wind turbines in Antartica.

I don't think it is the technology.

Yea, typical weather in Texas is just like Antartica, orbital space, and Mars.

Would it kill you to just admit that Texas cheaped out and hasn’t properly prepared for the extreme weather events that accompany climate change? They ignored previous recommendations to proactively fortify infrastructure.

It’s just going to get worse. Responses like your’s are like an ostrich with its head in the sand. This will happen again....and again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn't Texas have laws against price hikes like this in a disaster?

Wouldn't that be.....regulation?

don't burst their bubble

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if this is going to be a tipping point to get rid of some of the Republican leadership in Texas unfortunately memories are short when it comes to elections

just remember people this is the price you pay for low taxes and lack of regulation.

Elections are next year - hopefully memories aren’t that short.

No, people. Rs are party over country.

#stickitothelibs

The Republicans I knew when I lived in Texas would not vote for a Republican in this case. It's why Ann Richards was elected for one term. You might be surprised how angry it makes people to sit in freezing cold houses with burst pipes and no drinking water. Or maybe you wouldn't be surprised. It doesn't take much imagination.

Ann Richards was decades ago, and the R party today doesn't look anything like the R party of 30 years ago. Also, let's remember that she was a one-term governor, and if she had been alive during Trump's years they would've been at each other's throats. I wish she had been alive these past four years. It would've been a sight to behold to seem the two go at each other.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solar panels on the space station and the mars lander seem to do fine. So do the wind turbines in Antartica.

I don't think it is the technology.

Yea, typical weather in Texas is just like Antartica, orbital space, and Mars.

Would it kill you to just admit that Texas cheaped out and hasn’t properly prepared for the extreme weather events that accompany climate change? They ignored previous recommendations to proactively fortify infrastructure.

It’s just going to get worse. Responses like your’s are like an ostrich with its head in the sand. This will happen again....and again.

Yes. PP would rather die than admit the GOP fcked up.

[Anonymous]

PP can't admit that if the turbines can run in really extreme environments, then it's not that turbines can't work in Texas. It's that they cheap out and don't want to prepare for what they've been told by experts they will be facing.

I bet PP has no problem with Texas accepting federal disaster relief, since they couldn't manage taking care of themselves even before secession. Is that cool by you, PP?

[Anonymous]

My Texas based family will die in their freezing homes without water rather than vote Dem. I can't even talk to them and expect a reasonable response about this. They are also all over 65. I think Texas will only go Dem after people like them die and younger progressives move in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solar panels on the space station and the mars lander seem to do fine. So do the wind turbines in Antartica.

I don't think it is the technology.

Yea, typical weather in Texas is just like Antartica, orbital space, and Mars.

Would it kill you to just admit that Texas cheaped out and hasn’t properly prepared for the extreme weather events that accompany climate change? They ignored previous recommendations to proactively fortify infrastructure.

It’s just going to get worse. Responses like your’s are like an ostrich with its head in the sand. This will happen again....and again.

Well, that's not for me to decide, I don't pay taxes in Texas. I am not sure if I want to pay every year to prepare for an event that may happen every 50 years. If the tax payers in Texas believe it's a good use of their funds to be constantly prepared for snow and prolonged freezing weather, then that's their business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solar panels on the space station and the mars lander seem to do fine. So do the wind turbines in Antartica.

I don't think it is the technology.

Yea, typical weather in Texas is just like Antartica, orbital space, and Mars.

Would it kill you to just admit that Texas cheaped out and hasn’t properly prepared for the extreme weather events that accompany climate change? They ignored previous recommendations to proactively fortify infrastructure.

It’s just going to get worse. Responses like your’s are like an ostrich with its head in the sand. This will happen again....and again.

Well, that's not for me to decide, I don't pay taxes in Texas. I am not sure if I want to pay every year to prepare for an event that may happen every 50 years. If the tax payers in Texas believe it's a good use of their funds to be constantly prepared for snow and prolonged freezing weather, then that's their business.

Texans don't pay taxes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solar panels on the space station and the mars lander seem to do fine. So do the wind turbines in Antartica.

I don't think it is the technology.

Yea, typical weather in Texas is just like Antartica, orbital space, and Mars.

Would it kill you to just admit that Texas cheaped out and hasn’t properly prepared for the extreme weather events that accompany climate change? They ignored previous recommendations to proactively fortify infrastructure.

It’s just going to get worse. Responses like your’s are like an ostrich with its head in the sand. This will happen again....and again.

Well, that's not for me to decide, I don't pay taxes in Texas. I am not sure if I want to pay every year to prepare for an event that may happen every 50 years. If the tax payers in Texas believe it's a good use of their funds to be constantly prepared for snow and prolonged freezing weather, then that's their business.

DP
As a person from outside Texas who pays federal taxes (I assume, correct me if not), do you have any objection at all to repeatedly bailing out Texas with federal resources, when Texas continues to cheap out and go on the dole when they get caught with their pants down?

Any objection, or absolutely none at all?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solar panels on the space station and the mars lander seem to do fine. So do the wind turbines in Antartica.

I don't think it is the technology.

Yea, typical weather in Texas is just like Antartica, orbital space, and Mars.

Would it kill you to just admit that Texas cheaped out and hasn’t properly prepared for the extreme weather events that accompany climate change? They ignored previous recommendations to proactively fortify infrastructure.

It’s just going to get worse. Responses like your’s are like an ostrich with its head in the sand. This will happen again....and again.

Well, that's not for me to decide, I don't pay taxes in Texas. I am not sure if I want to pay every year to prepare for an event that may happen every 50 years. If the tax payers in Texas believe it's a good use of their funds to be constantly prepared for snow and prolonged freezing weather, then that's their business.

Clueless. You don't have to produce and pay for excess power every year, you just need to winterize your infrastructure so that it can function in freezing weather and you need to participate in a regional and/or national compact so you can buy power if your infrastructure fails. Those things are much less expensive than the costs of a massive failure of the power grid.