You say that without any recognition of how the Democrats have entirely manipulated the energy market, virtually eliminating coal.
Also, lets keep in mind that what we heard through politicians, officials, and media talking heads yesterday either censored any reference to wind power or severely minimized it.
A Centerpoint VP interview was played all day on local news. He said merely power generation failed. Abbott was interviewed and said natural gas and nuclear failed with not even a mention of wind. The media blathered on all day about peak demand, only briefly allowing the mention of the word wind. Abbott emphasized "private" companies over and over, evading the obvious overbearing government regulation and manipulation of the market. Natural gas plants failed? Which ones? What percentage of total capacity failed? Same for nuclear. Fifty percent of the 25% total capacity of wind power that we depend on failed yesterday. I never heard the media, officials, or politicians mention that once yesterday. I wonder why that is?
I will add that Texas has been booming for years without major investments to infrastucture. The amount without power is probably close to the amount that moved here in the last decade. My numbers may be off a bit, but what major projects for power, or water have been completed to handle the influx of people? Forsight seems to be lacking in the population, cash, tax, and voter grab. Water will be the issue again come late spring.
The issue is liberal progressive socialist policies and politics that have caved into it for years. Why do we have such a migration of population? Why have we lost safe reliable power from coal? Why are we trying to rely on such unreliable wind power? We all know why. What we've got to learn is the same thing gun control activists have known for a long time. You can't give in to their incremental power grab. Not an inch. We have to treat those that do for what they are. They're traitors. I'm watching these idiots that are in control of this progressive vision of central control, central planning. They're idiots. We're fools for giving them such unbridled power over our lives.
I agree. Texas has for decades advertised itself like the late night ads on tv saying you can airbrush 30 years off your face for $19.99. Its simply not true. They however increased taxes/voter registration without laying a foundation for the future. Illegal labor is 30% of the success Texas claims as far as i can see. That sucks to hear, but someone had to say it.
This is a very good point. I don’t watch the news but if they didn’t bring up the fact that 23% of our energy (wind turbines) is frozen and locked up then they are definitely purposely hiding information from the public which means it’s more than likely the biggest aspect of the energy crisis right now.
12%, ie half of the 23% capacity. As I understand natural gas has also been impacted, but given their clear intent to minimize the publicity of the wind problem, I want to know how much of the natural gas production we lost. The one word no one is mentioning is coal. What's the biggest difference in our power grid now as compared to 1983 and 1989 when we had similar winter storms? Coal!
Natural gas also failed. Our system just isn't built to withstand this cold. This is a once in a several generation storm.
You say that without any recognition of how the Democrats have entirely manipulated the energy market, virtually eliminating coal.
Also, lets keep in mind that what we heard through politicians, officials, and media talking heads yesterday either censored any reference to wind power or severely minimized it.
A Centerpoint VP interview was played all day on local news. He said merely power generation failed. Abbott was interviewed and said natural gas and nuclear failed with not even a mention of wind. The media blathered on all day about peak demand, only briefly allowing the mention of the word wind. Abbott emphasized "private" companies over and over, evading the obvious overbearing government regulation and manipulation of the market. Natural gas plants failed? Which ones? What percentage of total capacity failed? Same for nuclear. Fifty percent of the 25% total capacity of wind power that we depend on failed yesterday. I never heard the media, officials, or politicians mention that once yesterday. I wonder why that is?
I will add that Texas has been booming for years without major investments to infrastucture. The amount without power is probably close to the amount that moved here in the last decade. My numbers may be off a bit, but what major projects for power, or water have been completed to handle the influx of people? Forsight seems to be lacking in the population, cash, tax, and voter grab. Water will be the issue again come late spring.
The issue is liberal progressive socialist policies and politics that have caved into it for years. Why do we have such a migration of population? Why have we lost safe reliable power from coal? Why are we trying to rely on such unreliable wind power? We all know why. What we've got to learn is the same thing gun control activists have known for a long time. You can't give in to their incremental power grab. Not an inch. We have to treat those that do for what they are. They're traitors. I'm watching these idiots that are in control of this progressive vision of central control, central planning. They're idiots. We're fools for giving them such unbridled power over our lives.
I agree. Texas has for decades advertised itself like the late night ads on tv saying you can airbrush 30 years off your face for $19.99. Its simply not true. They however increased taxes/voter registration without laying a foundation for the future. Illegal labor is 30% of the success Texas claims as far as i can see. That sucks to hear, but someone had to say it.
The coal plants froze over too brosky
This is a very good point. I don’t watch the news but if they didn’t bring up the fact that 23% of our energy (wind turbines) is frozen and locked up then they are definitely purposely hiding information from the public which means it’s more than likely the biggest aspect of the energy crisis right now.
12%, ie half of the 23% capacity. As I understand natural gas has also been impacted, but given their clear intent to minimize the publicity of the wind problem, I want to know how much of the natural gas production we lost. The one word no one is mentioning is coal. What's the biggest difference in our power grid now as compared to 1983 and 1989 when we had similar winter storms? Coal!