We have our own grid precisely to keep the federal government from leveraging our electricity as a means of blackmailing us to stay in the union. If you don't get that, you're the one who's stupid, not us. We understand winter means cold, and every Texan lives by the axiom: "if you don't like Texas' weather, wait 5 minutes, it'll change". We're not complaining and we don't need you to white knight for us or to slyly encourage "solutions" that only serve to enslave us.
We aren't pathetically dependent, like whiny-ass California or New York, to have to beg for electricity off our neighbors. If we can't provide it for ourselves, we don't want it from others. Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico are a lot colder than we are and what's the point in making them do without?? If you don't live here, you have no right to condescendingly pontificate about our strategy for defying the insidious collectivist tyranny of the feds. It's the Lone Star Republic for a reason.
Well I fully support Texans being able to decide to have independent power grid if there willing to bear the cost of it, which is stuff like this. Its not really Texas fault that their power grid isn't designed to deal with a 1 in 20 year ice storm, but this is what a unified power grid is for so, texans should weigh that when deciding.
Texas secession has always been like a little festival for the masses, a vial of hopium for the true diehards, its a joke, its never going to happen. Texas just doesn't want to have to deal with the same environmental regulations as the rest of the country. It has nothing to do with winning a war with the feds. Or not letting the Chinese build your grid. The construction of the grid is done by public utilities companies and contractors hired by state and municipal authorities not the fed and Texas could ban Chinese parts from being used in those contracts whether or not their grid was connected.
To entertain your notion. If there was a war the first thing the feds would do would be shoot a bunch of AGM-86 ALCM cruise missiles from bombers based in North Dakota or California probably and destroy all of Texas power plants making the grid more or less useless. If anything, Texas grid energy independence would just spare them having to blackout parts of New Mexico and Oklahoma.
We have our own grid precisely to keep the federal government from leveraging our electricity as a means of blackmailing us to stay in the union. If you don't get that, you're the one who's stupid, not us. We understand winter means cold, and every Texan lives by the axiom: "if you don't like Texas' weather, wait 5 minutes, it'll change". We're not complaining and we don't need you to white knight for us or to slyly encourage "solutions" that only serve to enslave us.
We aren't pathetically dependent, like whiny-ass California or New York, to have to beg for electricity off our neighbors. If we can't provide it for ourselves, we don't want it from others. Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico are a lot colder than we are and what's the point in making them do without?? If you don't live here, you have no right to condescendingly pontificate about our strategy for defying the insidious collectivist tyranny of the feds. It's the Lone Star Republic for a reason.
Well I fully support Texans being able to decide to have independent power grid if there willing to bear the cost of it, which is stuff like this. Its not really Texas fault that their power grid isn't designed to deal with a 1 in 20 year ice storm, but this is what a unified power grid is for so, texans should weigh that when deciding.
Texas secession has always been like a little festival for the masses, a vial of hopium for the true diehards, its a joke, its never going to happen. Texas just doesn't want to have to deal with the same environmental regulations as the rest of the country. It has nothing to do with winning a war with the feds. Or not letting the Chinese build your grid. The construction of the grid is done by public utilities companies and contractors hired by state and municipal authorities not the fed and Texas could ban Chinese parts from being used in those contracts whether or not their grid was connected.
To entertain your notion. If there was a war the first thing the feds would do would be shoot a bunch of AGM-86 ALCM cruise missiles from bombers based in North Dakota or California probably and destroy all of Texas power plants making the grid more or less useless. If anything, Texas grid energy independence would just spare them having to blackout parts of New Mexico and Oklahoma.