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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: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @05:29AM
The official report from FERC. [ferc.gov] Read their recommendations from 2011. A large number of those were completely ignored. Another batch appear to have been only partially implemented. Another chunk could have been done within the two weeks leading up to the cold snap but weren't.
If there is one benefit from all of this, FERC's report from this incident will be easier to write thanks to Texas's actions allowing them to freely use copy-paste.