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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: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 17 2021, @11:50PM (7 children)
And he said it over and over again, in the face of FatPhil and other linking him conclusive evidence otherwise and expert analysis, so it MUST be true. Totally renewables' fault. Just because all the underlying planning and infrastructure is shit and it wouldn't matter *what* was providing the power doesn't change the fact that this is green energy's fault and we should all go back to coal.
Fucking communist hippies and their--*checks notes*--resilient, interconnected power grids that make sure things like this don't happen anywhere else! It's all a Democrat conspiracy I tell you! Aimed at making Texas look bad!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @12:57AM
Give him a few days until him and his ilk can assemble the evidence of antifa's involvement in this.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @01:17AM (2 children)
They also mocked California for the rolling blackouts meant to prevent high winds from knocking over power lines and starting fires. Which of course had little to do with CA governance and much more to do with PG&E skimping on their maintenance costs. Oh ya, and climate change is a hoax which is why all that dry timber wasn't actually super moist but Gavin Newsom went out with his west coast elite hair dryer to make sure the fires would get bad.
Or something. So over their fucking shit while accusing liberals of being meany pants.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @05:03AM (1 child)
Yeah man, you tell 'em! Everybody knows wildfires didn't even exist until at least the 20th century. Dumb ass deniers.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @06:55AM
And cold temperatures didn't exist until the 21st. Checkmate atheists!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @01:58AM
As I heard it, the coal was frozen solid, couldn't be broken free by any of those real Texas cowboys, so the coal plants went down. Just one of several types of failures that took out much of their generation (of several types).
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday February 18 2021, @02:38AM
Connect Texas to the grid and they'll knock out half the country [wikipedia.org] because some damn armadillo got into a substation.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @07:14AM
Uzzard! Poor Uzzard! Not to mention free market, loves me some richies, khallow! If only we had deregulated the energy market in Texas, and started a company Called ENRON, to "leverage" and "facilitate" and "rip of the pension funds"! Would have been great times. Except for the freezing to death.