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State's Rights! Free Market! Independent! Power Grid!

Journal by DeathMonkey

Boy, that power grind in TX they refused to connect to the national grid because they didn't like all those regulations and that is wholly owned by a private corporation is operating swimmingly this week!

Good thing those those nanny state experts didn't force them to adequately maintain that grid! And it's definitely great that they're unable to import power from, say, Florida right now!

Texas grid fails to weatherize, repeats mistake feds cited 10 years ago
Libertarian paradise!

“No one owes you [or] your family anything,” Tim Boyd, previously mayor of Colorado City, Texas wrote Tuesday in a Facebook post. “I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!”
Yeah, fuck you and your family! Bootstraps motherfucker, have you heard of them!?!?!?!

The Texas power grid failed mostly due to natural gas. Republicans are blaming wind turbines.
Pass that buck like a true Patriot!

 

Reply to: Re:Honest! Analysis!

    (Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday February 17 2021, @07:20PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday February 17 2021, @07:20PM (#1114113)

    They managed to fuck up the Super Bowl in TEXAS and STILL didn't learn their lesson. [houstonchronicle.com]

    Yes, they can prepare for something that keeps happening over and over.

    Ten years ago, plunging temperatures forced rolling blackouts across Texas, leaving more than 3 million people without power as the Super Bowl was played outside Dallas.

    Now, with a near identical scenario following another Texas cold snap, Texas power regulators are being forced to answer how the unusually cold temperatures forced so much of the state’s power generation offline when Texans were trying to keep warm.

    To start, experts say, power generators and regulators failed to heed the lessons of 2011 — or for that matter, 1989. In the aftermath of the Super Bowl Sunday blackout a decade ago, federal energy officials warned the grid manager, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas or ERCOT, that Texas power plants had failed to adequately weatherize facilities to protect against cold weather.

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