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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So sorry, OP.  It sounds miserable.

Not sure how you can blame Republicans for not keeping up infrastructure.  It sounds like a freak storm causing wind turbines to freeze.

Perhaps we need to move cautiously away  from oil and gas until we have the technology for preventing such an event.   [/quote]

You keep up the infrastructure in order to weather freak storms - no pun intended - so yes, you can blame the Texas GOP where they spend more time on anti-choice measures and fighting for low to no taxes. You get what you pay for. [/quote]

It was all forseen.  The same thing happened in 2011 and the AAR pointed to the lack of basic weatherization along with the lack of backup generation as the problem.  ERCOT and FERC issued simple fix reccomendations, such as wind breaks and insulation, which were ignored by the providers.  Texas, through its government, chose to save 5¢ yesterday and here we are.  The rest of the country pays extra for our electricity to fund the weatherization, interconnection, and emergency backup supply that would have prevented all of this.  Texas though chose to take this risk and is now paying for it both literally and figuratively.
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