I like how the guy in the tweet blames Capitalism, while saying they "got the rules changed". What rules? Idiots. I'm with you, I think this has a lot more to do with pricing and fuel shortages than anything else.

One thing that comes to mind after doing some reading is how natural gas is unlike coal in that you do not have stockpiles of it, but simply pipe it in as needed. Most likely the reason for the shortages has something to do with the equipment near the extraction freezing up, killing delivery of the fuel and causing prices to skyrocket.