President Biden

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Originally Posted by Guisslapp

You are wrong, very wrong about Texas following federal laws for their power grid. That was the whole point in setting up an independent one - to avoid the regulations of the Federal Power Act by not shipping power across state lines (triggering commerce clause federal authority). It was a stupid, but very Texan idea.

Those windmills wouldn’t have stopped if they were equipped with heaters like they are in the north. That would have been cheaper than winterizing the natural gas pipelines, btw.

Why weren’t these systems winterized? How about you elaborate on that point.

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You do know I’m sure that power plants are not allowed to operate at full capacity without special permission, which they had to get from the Dept. of Energy in this particular case.

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Originally Posted by Guisslapp

We have learned that our scuzzbucket Senator left the state for Cancun to avoid dealing with the fiasco that his electorate were dealing with. Another example of Trump-style leadership that has spread in the Republican ranks.

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I know! and he probably seeks shelter when it starts raining too. At least he has enough sense to get out of the rain.

As for this particular weather event, I am curious what you think a senator can do. I am open to see your list of do-now tasks that would have a positive impact.

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Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS

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And the heaters would have been operating on fossil fuel. Just admit you’re wrong and go iquietly to another forum. You’ve been “Culture cancelled”. Besides Texas will get to the bottom of this and the leftist will be exposed n DC will be exposed. So many ERCOT board members aren’t even from Texas. 🤪

To quote our great Kdaniel1972:

“You burn more fossil fuels in the long term with wind and solar than you would by just using fossil fuels. So why again are you bashing Texas and what state do you live in?

Go watch Planet of The Humans please.”

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5 ERCOT board members don’t live in Texas, one from Canada

https://www.kxan.com/investigations/...e-from-canada/

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Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS

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And the heaters would have been operating on fossil fuel. Just admit you’re wrong and go iquietly to another forum. You’ve been “Culture cancelled”. Besides Texas will get to the bottom of this and the leftist will be exposed n DC will be exposed. So many ERCOT board members aren’t even from Texas. 🤪

To quote our great Kdaniel1972:

“You burn more fossil fuels in the long term with wind and solar than you would by just using fossil fuels. So why again are you bashing Texas and what state do you live in?

Go watch Planet of The Humans please.”

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I am not against fossil fuels so you are barking up the wrong tree. Doesn’t change the fact that natural gas failed us this time.

But, wind turbines don’t need fossil fuels for heat. They can use the electricity they generate.

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Originally Posted by glm47

You do know I’m sure that power plants are not allowed to operate at full capacity without special permission, which they had to get from the Dept. of Energy in this particular case.

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In Texas our natural gas, coal and nuclear power plants shut down because they froze.

They froze because they are not winterized.

They are not winterized because that costs money, and our regulations in Texas do not encourage reliability.

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Originally Posted by Guisslapp

We have learned that our scuzzbucket Senator left the state for Cancun to avoid dealing with the fiasco that his electorate were dealing with. Another example of Trump-style leadership that has spread in the Republican ranks.

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If you want to see a scuzzbucket just look in the mirror.

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Originally Posted by Bulldawg81

If you want to see a scuzzbucket just look in the mirror.

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You are confused. Me and you see different people in the mirror. I won’t see you if I look in my mirror.

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Originally Posted by Guisslapp

You are confused. Me and you see different people in the mirror. I won’t see you if I look in my mirror.

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I knew you were stupid, but I thought you would at least know how a mirror works.

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Originally Posted by Guisslapp

I am not against fossil fuels so you are barking up the wrong tree. Doesn’t change the fact that natural gas failed us this time.

But, wind turbines don’t need fossil fuels for heat. They can use the electricity they generate.

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BS! Have you not seen the latest pics of fossil fuels not only warming them but being poured on the blades and tops of these windmills by fossil fuel run helicopters to de-ice them?

To quote your favorite politico and who you voted for Sleepy Joe Biden.

“Come on man!”

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Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS

BS! Have you not seen the latest pics of fossil fuels not only warming them but being poured on the blades and tops of these windmills by fossil fuel run helicopters to de-ice them?

To quote your favorite politico and who you voted for Sleepy Joe Biden.

“Come on man!”

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You are barking up the wrong tree. I think we need lots of types of energy. And that means hydrocarbons are going to play a smaller roll going forward as a percentage of the total energy supply.

Why didn’t Texas energy producers winterize their plants?

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Originally Posted by Guisslapp

Why didn’t Texas energy producers winterize their plants?

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Same reason they don’t stock up on snow/ice removal equipment

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

Same reason they don’t stock up on snow/ice removal equipment

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That is a valid point. Not cost effective for places in the South to invest in snow plows. But, maybe providing basic winterization procedures makes sense on energy infrastructure.

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

Same reason they don’t stock up on snow/ice removal equipment

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People died and this is going to be a bigger property damage event than Harvey because they didn’t winterize. These type of winter storms are foreseeable.

Cost vs benefit. For public utilities in normal states a certain amount of reliability in exchange for the monopoly. In Texas we believe in Wild West utility race-to-the-bottom capitalism.

Will be interesting to see what happens to those that get outrageous electricity bills because they were wittingly or unwittingly on market rate plans. Could see this bankrupting some businesses.

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Originally Posted by Guisslapp

People died and this is going to be a bigger property damage event than Harvey because they didn’t winterize. These type of winter storms are foreseeable.

Cost vs benefit. For public utilities in normal states a certain amount of reliability in exchange for the monopoly. In Texas we believe in Wild West utility race-to-the-bottom capitalism.

Will be interesting to see what happens to those that get outrageous electricity bills because they were wittingly or unwittingly on market rate plans. Could see this bankrupting some businesses.

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The leftist using loss of life as an argument. You people are amazingly arrogant. Consider the fact that loss of life came from Carbon Monoxide poisoning, not freezing to death

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

The leftist using loss of life as an argument. You people are amazingly arrogant. Consider the fact that loss of life came from Carbon Monoxide poisoning, not freezing to death

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Does it matter? House fires and CO positioning always happen when cities lose power in the winter. There will also be some that loss of electricity impacted their medical equipment.

Probably half the homes will have pipe damage because dripping the faucets wasn’t enough when you didn’t have any internal heat.