Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just another reminder that the Texas GOP still hasn’t solved their energy problem and people are being asked not to use major appliances to conserve energy.

Way to go, Texas GOP voters!! You stink!

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/10/texas-blackouts-power-ercot/

Fox News has solved this problem by blaming Biden for it.

Dumb Fox viewers will believe anything and are getting pwned by Rupert Murdoch and the .01%

Anonymous wrote:When there is no or very limited competition, this is what results. Lack of innovation, lack of solutions, and high prices. This is not a Democrat or Republican problem, this is a people in power want to keep their monopoly problem. It is time to do to energy what was done to telecommunications. Micro grids, and true competition to the monolithic bulk power system.

Hey Einstein, TX deregulated its energy market in the '90's, although the professor in this interview calls it vertical disintegration.

This is a good interview on the history of the TX energy system: https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/why-the-texas-power-market-failed

When there is no or very limited competition, this is what results. Lack of innovation, lack of solutions, and high prices. This is not a Democrat or Republican problem, this is a people in power want to keep their monopoly problem. It is time to do to energy what was done to telecommunications. Micro grids, and true competition to the monolithic bulk power system.

Anonymous wrote:I'm in Southern Texas and my electricity provider has been emailing asking us to reduce usage during the hours of 2pm -8pm. Unbelievable in this day and age. In this country.

Regretfully, that’s exactly the sort of backward society the GOP wants. Science fiction has been promising free energy since the writers of 100-150 years ago, and lots of science has gone into related research.

The GOP wants people in debt, frozen, baked to death, smothered by CO and generally miserable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Big study of the carbon monoxide poisonings in Texas during the storm. Texas is one of only six states that doesn’t require CO detectors in homes; there was pushback against a 2007 bill requiring them calling them “unproven technology.”

I honestly don't understand this kind of extreme, knee-jerk opposition to regulation. There is pretty much zero burden on homeowners or business to require CO detectors. They're less than $20 and can easily be installed by a home owner in 10 minutes. Everyone already has smoke detectors, so it's not some new-fangled kind of thing that people aren't used to.

I truly don't get it.

Can't see or smell carbon monoxide, therefore it isn't real.
Just like how they think covid isn't real.
Just like how they think climate change isn't real.

And they want to insist they know better than anyone else - especially the scientists, doctors, etc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just another reminder that the Texas GOP still hasn’t solved their energy problem and people are being asked not to use major appliances to conserve energy.

Way to go, Texas GOP voters!! You stink!

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/10/texas-blackouts-power-ercot/

Fox News has solved this problem by blaming Biden for it.

Bullshit, Varney. Texas is ANTI-green.

Molly Jong Fast had a good interview with Mike Collier, the Dem running for Lt Gov of Texas against Patrick. One of the topics covered was the electric grid and Republicans' decision not to address the looming crisis. Really interesting and informative.

It was last Friday's (July 8th) podcast of The New Abnormal.

(The episode also had a great interview with Gretchen Carlson about legislation her organization is pressing for re: sexual harassment in the workplace. Also worth listening to.)

Republican solutions to life challenges:

“Get your own grid”
“Move to another state”
“Get another job”
“Don’t have sex if you don’t want kids”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Big study of the carbon monoxide poisonings in Texas during the storm. Texas is one of only six states that doesn’t require CO detectors in homes; there was pushback against a 2007 bill requiring them calling them “unproven technology.”

I honestly don't understand this kind of extreme, knee-jerk opposition to regulation. There is pretty much zero burden on homeowners or business to require CO detectors. They're less than $20 and can easily be installed by a home owner in 10 minutes. Everyone already has smoke detectors, so it's not some new-fangled kind of thing that people aren't used to.

I truly don't get it.

Because you have freedom! The freedom to die from easily preventable CO poisoning.

Anonymous wrote:Big study of the carbon monoxide poisonings in Texas during the storm. Texas is one of only six states that doesn’t require CO detectors in homes; there was pushback against a 2007 bill requiring them calling them “unproven technology.”

I honestly don't understand this kind of extreme, knee-jerk opposition to regulation. There is pretty much zero burden on homeowners or business to require CO detectors. They're less than $20 and can easily be installed by a home owner in 10 minutes. Everyone already has smoke detectors, so it's not some new-fangled kind of thing that people aren't used to.

I truly don't get it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just another reminder that the Texas GOP still hasn’t solved their energy problem and people are being asked not to use major appliances to conserve energy.

Way to go, Texas GOP voters!! You stink!

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/10/texas-blackouts-power-ercot/

Fox News has solved this problem by blaming Biden for it.

This is how they play the game. They come in, break* something, then lie and say they didn’t break it, and why hasn’t the other side fixed it yet. Their lack of fixing the issue means they’re bad and will make everything worse, so keep voting for me because I didn’t break it (even though they did).

It’s all lies and projection.

*break includes all sorts of cheating and criming.

I'm in Southern Texas and my electricity provider has been emailing asking us to reduce usage during the hours of 2pm -8pm. Unbelievable in this day and age. In this country.

Anonymous wrote:Just another reminder that the Texas GOP still hasn’t solved their energy problem and people are being asked not to use major appliances to conserve energy.

Way to go, Texas GOP voters!! You stink!

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/10/texas-blackouts-power-ercot/

Fox News has solved this problem by blaming Biden for it.

Just another reminder that the Texas GOP still hasn’t solved their energy problem and people are being asked not to use major appliances to conserve energy.

Way to go, Texas GOP voters!! You stink!

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/10/texas-blackouts-power-ercot/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Texas Republicans have spent the past year figuring out how to make more money off their frequent failures and no time on not failing.

+1 Texas is courting cryptocurrency miners which is the biggest waste of energy in the world.

It is absolute insanity that we are using this much electricity so people can stupidly speculate.