If you live in Texas and you have suffered like me know this: The Texas Governor, ERCOT and the PUC have blood on their hands. The Greens in government and their supporters have blood on their hands. The rush for feel good policies have real world consequences.
Beyond that is adding insult to injury for all businesses. How many billions of dollars will be the economic impact? How many people were out of work and didn't get paid? How many businesses lost revenue. No idea what that number is yet because it's still happening.
How many people now live in a home with severe water damage? How many pets were lost? How much food spoiled? How many people lived in their cars because they were all electric in their homes/apartments and had no way to heat anything?
How many billions did these generators of energy and retailers make since deregulation? How much have you paid to these people? How much in taxes have you paid on your bills for reliable power. Electricity and airlines are the most regulated yet deregulated industries. Government regulations on the industry and lack of oversight did us in. They had a duty of care and played Russian roulette with our energy needs. And just like Government does the changes are coming after the fact, there are no proactive changes.
Why do people have to die to make things better when Government is in charge?
I agree with what your saying.... this is a MAN MADE DISASTER!!!! These Liberal fools like ABBOTT need to resign NOW.... not sure if you watched the presser with Abbott, what a fcking joke! Texas power was not like this in the past, this is a new thing and you hit it on the head, deregulated power sourcing is BS. These assholes have put 20 million lives in sever jeopardy! And then have the NERVE TO TELL US LIVE ON TV THAT THEY CANT TELL US THEY ANT IDENTIFY HOW HAS POWER BY ZIP ODE OR OTHER WAYS! Are you FCKING kidding me! They can’t even be honest with us to tell us how much danger we are in... we have not received a single “ALERT TEXT” about affected areas etc but holy shit stop the world for an AMBER ALERT.... these fcking people are the biggest TAX SUCKING COCK SUCKERS!!! YOU FCKERS DID THIS! And oh by the way, it’s not a transmission problem is a production problem and a planning problem.... don’t believe for one second that this couldn’t be avoided because it could have!!!! Wait for the next secondary DISASTER, no one will have water for months because there won’t be enough plumbers to fix all the broken pipes! We won’t have jobs because we have all been out of business for 3 to 4 weeks,,,,, combine this with the pedo in the White House laughing it up because we didn’t vote for him!!! GET READY EVERYONE.... ANY NORMAL LEADER WOULD RESIGN BUT THEY DONT AND THEY WONT!