Anonymous
Post 05/15/2025 23:20     Subject: Texas Republicans pass bill requiring solar power plants subsidize coal plants

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Texas Republicans pass bill requiring solar power plants subsidize coal plants. It's DEI for black rocks.

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/5292792-texas-senate-bill-power-cost/


Good. I’m tired of taxes on oil, gas, and coal being used to prop up economically unviable solar and wind projects. It’s about damn time it went the other way too.


Good for Texas.



Solar is very viable. Oil and gas is not propping up solar and wind. TX has more renewable energy than any other state for a reason. It's not because the politicians love it. It's because it's reliable and cheap.


No it is because T Boone Pickens convinced Texas legislators that peak oil is coming and we need to subsidize all this renewable energy.


T. Boone Pickens wasn't wrong. The days of easy Texas oil are already gone. Now it takes a lot more work, hydrofracking, deep wells, offshore etc. People who think oil just magically comes from rocks and is in endless supply are out-of-touch fools.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2025 22:48     Subject: Texas Republicans pass bill requiring solar power plants subsidize coal plants

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Texas Republicans pass bill requiring solar power plants subsidize coal plants. It's DEI for black rocks.

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/5292792-texas-senate-bill-power-cost/


Good. I’m tired of taxes on oil, gas, and coal being used to prop up economically unviable solar and wind projects. It’s about damn time it went the other way too.


Good for Texas.



Solar is very viable. Oil and gas is not propping up solar and wind. TX has more renewable energy than any other state for a reason. It's not because the politicians love it. It's because it's reliable and cheap.


No it is because T Boone Pickens convinced Texas legislators that peak oil is coming and we need to subsidize all this renewable energy.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2025 18:43     Subject: Texas Republicans pass bill requiring solar power plants subsidize coal plants

Anonymous wrote:MAGA: "The gubmint shouldn't be picking winners and losers"

Also MAGA: "The gubmint has declared coal to be the winner and all others must bow down before the almighty coal heap"


I guess that's one way to get OPEC nations to gift you billions and by gift I mean bribe.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2025 18:30     Subject: Texas Republicans pass bill requiring solar power plants subsidize coal plants

Anonymous wrote:Everyone forget the freeze that caused blackouts a few years ago?


You mean the freeze that was because they bought a cheap, wrong, inferior product?

Why Did Wind Turbines Freeze in Texas When They Work in the Arctic?
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-wind-turbines-frozen-power-why-arctic-1570173

No, nobody forgot that ""In Northern Europe, wind power operates very reliably in even colder temperatures, including the upper Arctic regions of Finland, Norway, and Sweden."

Did you?
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2025 15:43     Subject: Texas Republicans pass bill requiring solar power plants subsidize coal plants

Anonymous wrote:Everyone forget the freeze that caused blackouts a few years ago?


Renewable energy is what is keeping the lights on in TX.