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(38,601 posts) Tue Feb 16, 2021, 01:50 PM Feb 2021

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This is a good time to note that the electrical grid in Texas was deregulated, privatized, and remov [View all]

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Bryan William Jones
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This is a good time to note that the electrical grid in Texas was deregulated, privatized, and removed from interconnected networks to avoid federal regulation and increase profits to a small number of wealthy individuals.
9:50 AM · Feb 16, 2021 from Salt Lake City, UT

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This is a good time to note that the electrical grid in Texas was deregulated, privatized, and remov [View all] soothsayer Feb 2021 OP

KNR niyad Feb 2021 #1

Kick dalton99a Feb 2021 #2

He's such a turd soothsayer Feb 2021 #4

Now, let's not go rubbing his nose in that tweet Grokenstein Feb 2021 #11

Lying Ted can fuck himself. rickyhall Feb 2021 #15

(when inspiration strikes...) orleans Feb 2021 #59

Get thee to the greatest page malaise Feb 2021 #3

Trickle down is shorthand for UpInArms Feb 2021 #5

You used North Shore Chicago Feb 2021 #9

They sure pissed over all of us malaise Feb 2021 #21

Tom Harkin said Oldem Feb 2021 #16

Perfect malaise Feb 2021 #19

Reminds me of an experiment I heard about years ago. jaxexpat Feb 2021 #29

So basically ... 'Eat shit and fry' Celerity Feb 2021 #46

Or baked, with cloves and pineapples. jaxexpat Feb 2021 #65

Except there is no way maxrandb Feb 2021 #49

True, but you must appreciate how they've shaved the milling costs. jaxexpat Feb 2021 #64

It has since been renamed: tinkle down economics Purrfessor Feb 2021 #68

Tom Harkin said Oldem Feb 2021 #18

It is actually called Horse and Sparrow economics. gab13by13 Feb 2021 #26

Or for the cruder crowd, Horse shit economics rurallib Feb 2021 #31

John Cornyn Budi Feb 2021 #6

+1 dalton99a Feb 2021 #12

Cornyn doesn't even know what he is talking about. Mr.Bill Feb 2021 #62

Someone makes bank OldBaldy1701E Feb 2021 #80

First thing Texas Governor Abbot did was scream for help from the Soshlist nanny state Roisin Ni Fiachra Feb 2021 #7

And the first thing Joe did was help. Did not make them grovel or beg soothsayer Feb 2021 #14

I wish he had told them to go rake their lawns. 33taw Feb 2021 #28

Or forests Celerity Feb 2021 #47

So much of our National Power Grid is Wellstone ruled Feb 2021 #8

Yep. musette_sf Feb 2021 #10

I remember those 1970s bumper stickers bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #13

Can't do schadenfreude on this one. RVN VET71 Feb 2021 #24

This Ferrets are Cool Feb 2021 #71

I remember the ones that said Leith Feb 2021 #34

So much winning with privatization. Liberal In Texas Feb 2021 #17

Well, it doesn't produce Co2. plimsoll Feb 2021 #39

KnR sarchasm Feb 2021 #20

Texas could use some global warming and fossil fuels right about now IronLionZion Feb 2021 #22

Turbines are part of the problem. gab13by13 Feb 2021 #27

It amazes me that something like a turbine would even have such an option rurallib Feb 2021 #32

Cold weather states use deicing systems IronLionZion Feb 2021 #60

By far the largest part was natural gas pipelines and compressors froze IronLionZion Feb 2021 #53

The turbines are an incredibly small part of the problem. whopis01 Feb 2021 #81

And Republicans would like the rest of us to live in the same conditions TeamPooka Feb 2021 #23

it also relies on wind power according to Houston Chronical SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2021 #25

Wind Turbines work fine in Minnestota, Sweden, the Artic Circle obamanut2012 Feb 2021 #33

Eastern Washington. plimsoll Feb 2021 #40

Wind turbines are freezing. SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2021 #54

Something like Tbone P.... Karadeniz Feb 2021 #63

Thank you Karadeniz! SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2021 #74

T. Boone Pickens? House of Roberts Feb 2021 #75

Yes. He died 9/11/19 SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2021 #76

Wind is currently only about 13% of Texas' power & it's been overproducing... CaptainTruth Feb 2021 #41

Ironically named "Energy Reliability" progressoid Feb 2021 #45

a major rethink is in order. SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2021 #55

Wind wasn't the problem. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #50

I also heard a discussion NPR this afternoon whereby the "energy expert" HUAJIAO Feb 2021 #58

Not good timing. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #61

ERCOT is a piece of shit organization, and guess what? ananda Feb 2021 #30

From what I've read, TX was never on the national grid... Wounded Bear Feb 2021 #35

As I said in an earlier thread, there is nothing wrong with the infrastructure. BobTheSubgenius Feb 2021 #36

Well it was. Now they're going to be answering all sort of things for a week or more Clearly fogged in Feb 2021 #78

El Paso not on the grid,,, benld74 Feb 2021 #37

Republicans can't govern. It's been obvious for decades, since Eisenhower left office. SunSeeker Feb 2021 #38

Does Ted Cruz, John Cornyn, Greg Abbott and all their extended families have power? Fla Dem Feb 2021 #42

Smells like Enron. C Moon Feb 2021 #43

YEP! Rebl2 Feb 2021 #67

Ted Cruz: "Socialism sucks". But, it's OK to suck all the electric power NCjack Feb 2021 #44

Only 3 grid in the lower 48, one of them is Texas Ziggysmom Feb 2021 #48

Oh, We Know Why! Deacon Blue Feb 2021 #52

Rt TY Smh.. & Texas Suffers bc Cha Feb 2021 #51

The travesty is that they don't understand they voted for this. Elections have consequences. nt live love laugh Feb 2021 #56

That falls on deaf ears. BigmanPigman Feb 2021 #73

I would never have assumed anything else. dchill Feb 2021 #57

So how's Rebl2 Feb 2021 #66

Yeah, Texas has always been very generous to "energy providers." The electrical grid buys energy, so Nitram Feb 2021 #69

And they think they can successfully secede! obamanut2012 Feb 2021 #70

Wealthy WARM individuals, you can be sure. Kablooie Feb 2021 #72

K&R MustLoveBeagles Feb 2021 #77

Kind Of Disagree, But We'll See modrepub Feb 2021 #79