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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!
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @02:43PM
All these comments about Republicans and Democrats and free markets and socialism and... is that the only lens through which you lot can analyze anything?
Why not try good ol' fashioned corruption?
An example. Georgetown, Texas made it their goal to get 100% of their electrical needs via renewable energy, which they succeeded at. (well, it involves energy credits and accounting shuffling, but close enough) For those unaware, Georgetown is in Williamson County, a county so fucking Republican that other Republicans wonder how Williamson got the law-and-order stick up their ass that far. (to illustrate, where Austin's unofficial motto is "Keep Austin Weird", Georgetown's is "Keep Georgetown Normal")
A deep Republican area going gaga over wind farms and solar panels? However could this be‽ Well gee, maybe those "grants" from the Bloomberg "charities" had a little something to do with it? Yeah, that Bloomberg. To be blunt, they were bribed. Legally, maybe, but bribed.
Corruption, the true American tradition. I worked with and in various Texas state and local government agencies for 20 fucking years, and while the corruption level varied, it was never zero. I didn't participate, but quietly made it known I wasn't looking to find any of the shit either. Kept me alive (that is not a metaphor).
Don't think that just because I gave a Republican example means the Dems were pure of heart. They were in there grubbing with all the rest. I'm not saying anybody got bribed to deliberately plunge Texas into icy doom, I'm just saying that companies made decisions to be cheap in certain areas, and government bodies made decisions to not worry about those cheap decisions, and quiet favors get traded and a faint nod here and there... it's all so genteel, and just "the way things are done".
It ain't just Texas either. It's everywhere. Everywhere. The only difference between America and the most openly corrupt third-world shithole is that Americans lie about it. We lie to ourselves most of all.