The App. Snapcrap is a mobile app that allows residents of San Francisco to request street and sidewalk cleaning from the city's Public Works department by submitting a photo of something gross (usually crap) and sharing its location. Users can then track their tickets through the app to see if they have been resolved.
Kind of like how you can smell the piss of New Orleans long before you ever make it to Bourbon Street, or the continuous waft of marijuana driving into Atlanta, even while still in your car ……and still on the interstate?
No place’s smells should proceed them, unless it’s the smell of really good food.
New Orleans is fucking dingy. I felt like I needed a shower after I went through there. Atlanta feels like someone is going to rob you any second and Las Vegas smells like weed 24/7
Yea I haven’t been anywhere in Atlanta that doesn’t smell like weed 24/7. The bad places, the good places, businesses, restaurants, just walking down the street, U-haul, the mall, Kroger- it doesn’t matter- all have the constant weed smell.
It’s beautiful at night, but damn the smell. We got a kid there. constant worry is the only way to describe it.
I noticed certain ports stink back when I was in the navy. Newport RI made me gag as we came in from the open ocean. I will never say anything else about Split Croatia after smelling Newport.
I think I would it fascinating to have those experiences. I know the ocean smells different in the Gulf than it does along the lower East coast, and even Florida’s beaches have a unique smell. Which are different, still, from running lines in the Mississippi River, vs visiting one of industrial river ports along its banks, vs camping on one of its sandbar.
Wonder what it is that makes Newport stink? Is it industrial, or fishing, or what.
At this rate the neighboring cities of Pflugerville, Round Rock, Bastrop and San Marcos aren't far behind. The contractors can't keep up with the demand for new construction from people who can telecommute to work and want to spread their stupidity and wokeness all over Texas because they can't afford to live in their own failures anymore.
all TX cities are like this now. why do people LARP like san antonio, houston, and DFW are pure and innocent and not having a libshit problem like austin?
If you're at a restaurant and that happens, and you haven't gotten your food yet or you have but haven't eaten much yet, just get up and leave. See if the restaurant would rather get woke points or paying customers.
In addition to the absolute worst traffic and drivers I've ever experienced in my life, there are some stupid motherfuckers here that are into made-up pronouns and support illegals.it's especially bad around the universities; gullible idiots, Boss Babes and PC Bros. A lot of very arrogant and rude people here.
So the meteorologists are actually predicting a possible severe drought this year like we had in 2011 because the signs in future casting and what we've had so far this year are eerily similar to 2011
Climate change is one thing but they're normally pretty good at predicting the general outcome of a year
In Commiefornia, we've had two major fires that caused massive environmental damage, property destruction, wildlife death and human death that were set by arsonists who were climate change activists, one a college professor.
Fires start for all kinds of reasons. Proper forest management, like we used to do before the Sierra Club pushed for hands-off policies, keeps them from getting out of hand,
Last time I drove through Texas, there was a lot of wind turbines; the politicians of Texas have unfortunately wasted money on those rather than on reliable power, and those decisions were likely made by the sort or scum that has slithered around Texas for decades, in the camp of snakes like George W.
After Snowpocalypse, we found out that those turbines are subsidized, not only to get them working, but enough to force coal plants off-line. Because coal just can't compete with government money. Well of course not, if you keep turning up subsidies until you get the closing of coal plants just like was planned.
So coal couldn't get back on line when the turbines just couldn't do a damn thing in frozen weather.
I'm in Houston and no exageration, almost every fucking day either I or someone I witness are inconvenienced, some times in a big way, by someone's inability to speak english.
It's fucking ridiculous. Texas was once a part of Mexico, but it's not anymore, because Mexico got its fucking ass kicked and that's a fact. If you speak english and spanish, cool, but if you won't or can't speak english, get the fuck out.
Seriously. Most countries in "Latin" America are made up of mixed people and different "races," but they recognize they have distinct general cultures and require people to learn spanish, portuguese, or even dutch depending on the country. We should do the exact same. Assimilate and speak english, or fuck off. We're a country, not a charity.
Well that is because we are not attracting the educated classes from Mexico, Central, & South America. We are getting the poor who can barely speak Spanish. Expecting them to learn English is laughable.
I'm in Dallas and some of the contractors that my apartment uses for maintenance can't speak a lick of English either. I guarantee they didn't come over legally. Kick them all out, and take down the extra Spanish signs.
Nothing against Spanish, I took it in high school and loved how easy it was to learn and how cool it sounds. But if you can't speak English, you shouldn't be allowed into the U.S.; that simple.
“Latin American” countries have primarily two races. The European descended and the Natives. There has been some interbreeding obviously, but there is still a huge divide between the “whites” and the “Indians”.
The indians are the perpetual needy, useless poor class. They are short, squatty, dark completed. Sound familiar?
They are the ones we identify as “Mexicans” because they are the ones the Europeans down there are all to happy to ship out of their countries. They pack them on busses themselves and send them to us and they will NEVER take them back. Not in a million years!
Essentially if your a Republican in California, then please move here anytime you want. If your a California Democrat, then please stay away, we don’t want nor need you or your shitty tech industry.
I'm calling bullshit on that. Got into it with a few Texans awhile back about possibly looking to move there. Do Texans just assume everyone is a liberal that isn't from their shitty state? Texas can get fucked with their illegals and faggot Cali imports. If I leave my state Florida will be my new home.
Don't care, was just pointing out that there are 10 million more Californians than Texans so your point about a few more votes for Trump is irrelevant.
California has more gun owners too, partly because gun registration is mandatory, so they have actual numbers, partly because most of CA is rural outside of LA, SD, SF.
i don't blame them not one bit. Biden & Harris and every Democrat invited them or did you miss the primaries where they declared their intentions to let every single person safe passage into America. Blame Biden and the Demonrats...economically desperate people are always willing to move to greener pastures when invited.
The Texas house controlled by republicans gave all the high committee positions to democrats. People who think Texas is based have no idea what is going on in Texas politics.
hah, there was actually a proposition on the Republican primary ballot to stop that, the majority approved. https://results.texas-election.com/races. Would be nice to see this in action soon.
yep, I remember that during Enron days. They would call plant managers to shut plants down to manipulate cost of energy. It was really fucked up shit they did. Looks like history repeating itself.
They went all in on renewables because of tax credits and shut down coal and gas plants that the renewables undercut, then when the renewables fall short, the grid takes a hit.
These problems will continue to repeat until they build a few nuke or coal plants.
They did justify some of the renewables based on stability, but that only is useful if they were to accept the added cost of that stability.
Instead they chose to harm existing powerplants by allowing insane rate-swings. They should have enforced a rule to normalize rates for powerplants that could provide constant power over the renewables.
Renewables are good, but relying on them ALONE is a mess.
Treating them like any other power plant is a mess, they should treat temporary power plants (like solar/wind) as a reduced provider and shift their rates to keep from directly harming larger more stable (rotating mass / coal, gas, nuclear, hydro, etc.) powerplants.
The wind blew really hard a few months ago I'm west Texas causing a large influxof unused power. Commanche Peak Nuclear plant was asked to load follow for the wind turbines. Can you imagine the balls it must take to tell a nuclear plant to back off because the wind is blowing? I would bet it cost millions in lost revenue for the company.
Also, how utterly pointless is that? What was accomplished by supplanting nuclear with wind for that period of time? Congratulations to the green brigade, you managed to step on reliable green power with shittier green power.
Rural municipalities run by honestly elected government officials still seems to work. That is a outlier, and the reason Texas still stands for the time being.
It is the only model of government allowed by, and checked daily by the people that elected it. Small, and personal. The Constitution agreed with this type of government. The celebrity federal politicians that still believe differently are in for a very rude awakening before long. My state senators are MIA. Cruz, and Cornyn should be on the local news every day down on the border of the United States of America defending their state for the people that elected them! I know the money, and politics behind why they are not. They need to know that Americans, and Texans consider them failures, and a waste of time.
"After six power plants went down unexpectedly Friday — and with hot weather expected across Texas this weekend — the Electric Reliability Council of Texas on Friday evening is asking consumers to conserve electricity through Sunday."
We get automated texts and phone calls from our power company lecturing us about "we've done our part to prepare for bad weather, have you?" and other bullshit.
My preparation is paying the fucking bill. This commie nanny state shit pisses me off.
I hate these texts. You want me to pitch in when I pay you, to do one specific thing. This isn’t a team effort, this is a “I paid you so you’re going to do what I paid you for” situation.
The amount of issues that government causes with their meddling and “incentives” is fucking incredible. I couldn’t fuck shit up like they manage to even if I tried.
Speaking of power shortages. They can make an excuse for Dominion and Smartmatic machines not processing votes at the midterms. Don't think these deep state faggots don't have bigger plans with the power grid
One nice thing about living in Northern Virginia, and among the DC elites, is that we suspiciously never have power outages, wildfires, water shortages, etc.
As long as it’s not in their back yard they don’t care.
Texan here who is not a massive pussy like the above posters. 78 during the day when it’s 100 degrees outside is plenty cool enough. Bump it down at night and voila, everyone is happy
This is accurate. But this is a matter of principle that we shouldn’t have to compromise on because our elected “leaders” couldn’t lead their way out of a fucking paper bag.
He had an undiagnosed heart murmur and passed out during a winter rolling blackout when the house got cold. He hit his head during the fall. They couldn’t fix either problem until the other improved and he died in ICU.
Texas’ electrical grid can handle air conditioners during the summer. Half the houses here have natural gas heat. Rolling blackouts in winter make no sense. Someone sacrificed people for money.
Abbott is compromised like any Texas governor would be. Illegal labor, federal money, and race bullshit. Fueled by the good old boy corporations. All flown under the great state of the republic of Texas flag. Future govenors of Texas need to close the border, tell DC to suck it, and stand hard against crony capitalism while breaking all communist inroads. That includes the cartels that run Texas. Abbott does not have the spine to do what is necessary.
He had my vote. I think it was interesting that West, and Huffines got the same percentage of votes reported by the local MSM. 17% each if I remember correctly.
They do that because the city hooks your solar panels up to feed power back to the grid. If your panels are active and someone is working on a powerline that should be dead, but then you start feeding power into it, it can get someone hurt. You can contact an electrician about installing a transfer switch so at any time you can switch the line from the grid to powering only your house. Then the city won't even know you're using them.
Can you power your home directly with solar panels without being connected to the grid? I purchased the system from a solar company and they won't give me the administrative credentials until the power company gives us permission to operate...
Also you can set up a diesel generator system on your transfer switch as well, so you can use grid power under normal conditions, then if the grid is down you can use the solar in the day and the generator at night.
Can you power your home directly with solar panels without being connected to the grid?
Yes, but solar panels are very inefficient and you likely don't have a nearly large enough array to handle 100% of your energy needs. You can use it to run your house with greatly reduced power, triaging to decide what you need, based on the power your system can provide.
I purchased the system from a solar company and they won't give me the administrative credentials until the power company gives us permission to operate...
You can just bypass their controller if you install your own controller. Again, you could theoretically have a transfer switch to change between their controller and yours depending on when you're using your set-up "normally" (connected to grid), and when you are powering only your own house. An electrician should be able to set up an entire parallel system that you just flip 2 switches, to go between standard setup and your own.
Edit: just so you know though, electrical work isn't cheap. Neither are the materials accomplishing this would require.
I haven’t done a whole lot of research into solar for home yet. Even at reduced power, is that in a live use situation during the day? Or is the available energy always going to be limited by the capabilities of whatever intermediary control system is between the panels and load? Solar panels produce DC electricity so wouldn’t there have to be a beefy inverter to feed ac current through the home through a BMS, fed by panels? If that’s the case, I can see solar equipment costing big $$$.
The solar panels indeed produce DC, which is fed into an inverter that is then fed into a controller that distributes the power. You can add in batteries or go straight to the house/grid, but if you were to add the transfer switches, you can get away with just 1 to switch the line from feeding the grid to only feeding the house, or 2 to also bypass the controller, but still keep the BMS if you do it right. The inverter is indeed one of the most expensive components, but you shouldn't need another one unless you have an inverter that is also the controller (which I have not encountered in 8 years of doing electrical work, but likely exists). The most expensive part of a solar system is likely the electrical labor, followed by the panels, then the inverter. If you can save on the labor you can get a solar set up for quite cheap. For example, my father has looked into getting a solar system, but decided not to because the companies he talked to all quoted him around $70k, charging him $150/hr for each of the electrical workers that would be out there, of which there would be many. I offered to do it for him for way cheaper, not even naming a price because since he's my father I would do it for free tbh, and going by 2016 prices that would cut his costs down to $15k or so (i haven't bothered asking the bosses about solar prices in years, since I rarely go on solar jobs any more). In retrospect, I shouldn't have said have an electrician ⁶build an entire parallel system, because while the concepr I was referring to is indeed well-described by that phrase as far as an electrical standpoint, to non-elecrricians it sounds like I mean buying everything twice. What I actually mean is buying 1 set of panels, 1 inverter, 1 BMS, 2 controllers, 1 inverter, 2 disconnects, and 2 transfer switches. Hope this helps. Pelase feel free to ask if you have any further questions.
Texas and its GOP needs to get their shit together.
Florida stole Texas' crown. Another state I'll keep secret for now is like Texas but with less rules, more freedom, and amazing gun laws. And there are more states stepping their game up.
If in the futuee Trump's endorsement efforts prove to be in vain, Texans should ignore him and vots for people that'll actually unfuck their slowly worsening state.
I'm a transplant to Texas. Texas is GOP. It is not necessarily conservative. I've had a hell of a time finding people who have gone as far down the rabbit holes as I have.
This is a practice run for compliance like they did with the flu in 2020. Dark Winter after they get slaughtered in the midterms is going to be the response. $8.50 a gallon. Yeah, it can happen
It's like leftists are trying as hard as they can to ruin everything. Let's tell kids to be trannies, pedos and jack off and let's destroy factories, print a bunch of money and give it to other countries who can give it back to our friends, and lets mass inject poison in people, and arrest anyone who complains or says anything we dislike. Yay!
Decentralize the grid!!!! Imagine if the schools and government encouraged individual independence in all aspects of your life power, food, defense how strong America would be!
Betting it was the Chinese who have their hands all over our grid thanks to RINO Abbott the faggot (who Trump endorsed for some reason over Allen West)...
One way to spot a Uniparty leader is to see what the Dems and Rinos run against them. Look at McCONnell in his last senate run. No chance Kentucky votes for the Lesbo. Look at who Abbott gets to run against. Beto is such damaged goods in TX he couldn't beat anybody.
Now I supported Allen West over Abbott but now understand why Trump did not endorse him. He ran a shit campaign in the primaries! If he actually beat Abbott in the primaries, not so sure he would have did well in the general election.
Allen West got second place on a 3 million dollar campaign fund. That's going against Abbott's 44 million and Huffines 11 million. That speaks volumes. Abbott is corrupt and Trump was wrong to endorse Abbott.
It wasn’t about $$ for campaign, it was about energy. Getting his name and message out there. There were already doubts about West after he only served a year as TX GOP chairman before quitting to run for governor. And these were not my doubts, I heard them from other people. I’m here and watching campaigns, his was no good.
No, it wasn't a great campaign, but there was a ton of misinformation and censorship too. West wasn't allowed on the news channels like Abbott was and he actually quit as GOP chairman to retire. He only ran because people petitioned him to do so (myself included). The RINOs in Texas worked hard to bury West and Trump could have changed it all by hosting him during a rally.
From what I saw, Abbott remained hidden during the entire campaign season. Not sure what you mean. Never heard anything about West retiring. I did hear, when he stepped down from TX GOP, that he was thinking about running for governor. I heard doubts about West from grassroots activists. It shocked me. I like Allen West but I think he should have ran a more bold campaign. He needs a new campaign manager. If he had won the primary and kept his campaign the same, I’d be very worried for the general election.
Abbott remained hidden during the entire campaign season.
No, he had ads all over TV. He attended Trump rallies too.
Never heard anything about West retiring. I did hear, when he stepped down from TX GOP, that he was thinking about running for governor.
That is not true. He stepped down to retire. He only ran for governor soon after because people petitioned him to do so. I was one of the thousands who signed it begging him to run. His very first campaign announcement was him acknowledging the petition.
Hi y'all! Texan here! REPUBLICANS have controlled the Governor's office since 1995. The state senate since 1997. The state House since 2003. So y'all can FUCK RIGHT OFF with your MuH CaLiFoRNIa bullshit. Californians didn't screw up energy in this state.
If this is something that has been experienced from time to time in Texas over the course of many years then fine, but if it is an unusual or new occurrence, then by now we should realize that it is likely part of the deliberate attack on the people from the regime.
Maybe the govt should cut the use of power to the holding facilities FIRST. Anyone in there is supposed to be used to 3rd world living and they won't mind .
But muh tesla. How can I drive to get my daily pcr test and Depop booster?
Enter elon with the new color matched tesla trailer that pulls smoothly behind your tesla car while effortlessly charging it from a multi fuel generator. You can burn coal, diesel, gasoline, restaurant grease, logs, pellets, baby seals, junk mail, plastic bottles, evidence, secret bathroom servers, Conservative ballots, and extra illegal ballots that were not needed for the steal.
You ain’t gotta ask this Texan twice. Bills have gotten crazy. Gas too. It’s so bad I’ve started sleeping at night again. I was trying to be awake at night because I’ve been working in the attic. I’m about finished. If it wasn’t so dusty I’d already have a clothesline.
I don't think they have a choice, as I understand the Texas system, the cost of electricity is on some kind of sliding scale. It was a year or two ago during a winter storm where people ended up with electricity bills in the tens of thousand of dollars.
I guess that explains it, seems to me that those people should have had a auto cutoff system in place much like people with data plans can set up auto cutoff's. In fact I'm one of them.
The power company did everything in their power to warm people the spot price was going up. The people best served on that plan switched to gas generators. Clueless idiots didn't.
I work in the industry. The "system" isn't a sliding scale per se. The people that got stuck with high bills were those that bought their energy from a few energy retailers that did not financially hedge against price swings AND had contracts that allowed them to pass those costs through. Shady beyond belief. Most retailers and customers were not hit like this though.
Yes, in Colorado Springs the geniuses signed onto some form of this and we were gauged. Last month’s bill was the final payoff for the Jan or Feb 2019 or 2020 freeze and price hikes in TX. Rep from power company said that was the reason for the high bills we paid for 18 months. Ppl raised Hell at city council, and I am pretty sure that the powers that be are no longer buying on risky plans.
Yep, some of these Retailers are shady, while some are really really great. You have to do a lot of due diligence though to make sure you get a good one AND don't get suckered into a bait-and-switch once your initial term is up.
It's a little bit like insurance...what good is it to have the lowest rates if your claims always get denied?
This afternoon, six power generation facilities tripped offline resulting in the loss of approximately 2,900 MW of electricity. At this time, all generation resources available are operating. We’re asking Texans to conserve power when they can by setting their thermostats to 78-degrees or above and avoiding the usage of large appliances (such as dishwashers, washers and dryers) during peak hours between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. through the weekend.
I'm in Florida. I keep my AC at 78 in summer and use a 72" ceiling fan on lowest setting in my main room to move air in volume but slowly. The fan does not increase my power use much at all on that slow speed and I stay cool inside. It works out well and my power bill is only around $100/mo or less.
edit, just checked. My bill for last month was $84. I have a house. It is not a grand huge home, but a modest house that blends well into my rural area of homes.
Texas could fix this, but the PUC doesn't want to raise rates to pay for it. It will take a few years of this garbage for voters to get mad enough to change the political landscape in favor of higher rates and the buildout of more fossil generation.
During the big winter event though, renewables were just a side-story. The real problem is lack of winterization, which is even more costly and actually has downsides in a hot environment like Texas.
Seems like they ought to harness all that heat and sunlight to generate electricity. The cost per kilowatt-hour is way down these days.
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Decentralization is the name of the game for the future.
Those California transplants managed to bring their problems with them. 😏
Sure did. Can’t wait for forest fires and apps telling me where to walk without stepping on human feces.
Yay progress!
Tik-Tak-Turd
Shartify
Poober
Poop-E-Mon Go when you got to Go
while tweeting on Shitter... while on the shitter... i mean sidewalk.
CrapChat
FecesBook
Instapoop.
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The App. Snapcrap is a mobile app that allows residents of San Francisco to request street and sidewalk cleaning from the city's Public Works department by submitting a photo of something gross (usually crap) and sharing its location. Users can then track their tickets through the app to see if they have been resolved.
Not OnlyFarts
Human feces? Wtf lol
Hey. People defecate in the streets of San Francisco all the time. Now Austin will soon enjoy the shit culture!
Ever lived in a house in-between campus dorms and the towns bars.
Permanent piss smell lol
Can confirm.
Ditto
Kind of like how you can smell the piss of New Orleans long before you ever make it to Bourbon Street, or the continuous waft of marijuana driving into Atlanta, even while still in your car ……and still on the interstate?
No place’s smells should proceed them, unless it’s the smell of really good food.
Can’t imagine human feces, literally
shuddering intensifies
New Orleans is fucking dingy. I felt like I needed a shower after I went through there. Atlanta feels like someone is going to rob you any second and Las Vegas smells like weed 24/7
Yea I haven’t been anywhere in Atlanta that doesn’t smell like weed 24/7. The bad places, the good places, businesses, restaurants, just walking down the street, U-haul, the mall, Kroger- it doesn’t matter- all have the constant weed smell.
It’s beautiful at night, but damn the smell. We got a kid there. constant worry is the only way to describe it.
Atlanta - somebody gonna rob you
New Orleans- somebody gonna kill you
lol. Bc of the piss and vomit smell? Bc I can that being the reason
I noticed certain ports stink back when I was in the navy. Newport RI made me gag as we came in from the open ocean. I will never say anything else about Split Croatia after smelling Newport.
I think I would it fascinating to have those experiences. I know the ocean smells different in the Gulf than it does along the lower East coast, and even Florida’s beaches have a unique smell. Which are different, still, from running lines in the Mississippi River, vs visiting one of industrial river ports along its banks, vs camping on one of its sandbar.
Wonder what it is that makes Newport stink? Is it industrial, or fishing, or what.
Or the smell of victory
New Jersey smells like burned toast and socks
Ha!
sounds like Manhattan
At this rate the neighboring cities of Pflugerville, Round Rock, Bastrop and San Marcos aren't far behind. The contractors can't keep up with the demand for new construction from people who can telecommute to work and want to spread their stupidity and wokeness all over Texas because they can't afford to live in their own failures anymore.
all TX cities are like this now. why do people LARP like san antonio, houston, and DFW are pure and innocent and not having a libshit problem like austin?
Houston is a fucking cesspool.
All Shities are Shitholes!
Always has been
Went to lunch in Dallas.
A fat man with a dog collar and giant pink bow dressed in a frilly pink skirt came in then was joined by his posse of freaks.
If you're at a restaurant and that happens, and you haven't gotten your food yet or you have but haven't eaten much yet, just get up and leave. See if the restaurant would rather get woke points or paying customers.
Did you take your kids to see the circus, they must be in town.
I'm temporarily living in Houston right now.
In addition to the absolute worst traffic and drivers I've ever experienced in my life, there are some stupid motherfuckers here that are into made-up pronouns and support illegals.it's especially bad around the universities; gullible idiots, Boss Babes and PC Bros. A lot of very arrogant and rude people here.
They're especially rude when they jam a gun in your face and steal your car or just beat the shit out of you.
Fort Worth is still better than Dallas - stay West side of the airport!
Yes, exactly right
This is WHY abortion should be up to states..... if abortion is illegal in Texas maybe abortion loving lib fucks will stay out.
Soft secession is the way.
crap app
here ya go! https://www.dailywire.com/news/poop-map-san-francisco-says-all-you-need-know-paul-bois
Lmao get a hobby
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=b6fab720912642b6aedafdb02a76d2a4
Too much time on your hands
The fact that there are several implementations to choose from of the "San Francisco shit map" should indicate to you the scale of the problem.
It's obviously a stupid meme.
I stepped in some on the sidewalk near Union Square. It’s real.
I lived in San Fran for 5 years.
I assure you the human shit on the sidewalks is all too real.
It's hilarious how you even have to be such a redditor about the sfo shit maps.
That's better than too much shit on your shoe
Where do you live
where the only shit is out in the horse pasture where it belongs
I work in SF. The human shit is everywhere.
It could always be worse
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So the meteorologists are actually predicting a possible severe drought this year like we had in 2011 because the signs in future casting and what we've had so far this year are eerily similar to 2011
Climate change is one thing but they're normally pretty good at predicting the general outcome of a year
So yeah we may see a lot of fires.
Especially because libtards are arsonists.
In Commiefornia, we've had two major fires that caused massive environmental damage, property destruction, wildlife death and human death that were set by arsonists who were climate change activists, one a college professor.
Fires start for all kinds of reasons. Proper forest management, like we used to do before the Sierra Club pushed for hands-off policies, keeps them from getting out of hand,
the fires that start because the environmentalist whackos won't let them do controlled burns because it might hurt the trees
even though some trees need fire to reproduce
Climate doesn't change in a year. That's called weather
That's what I mean. Multi year predictions are unreliable but they are pretty good about predicting "hey it's gonna suck this summer"
GLOBAL DRYING!
there is already a giant fire destroying $M homes in Orange county
You're...probably pooping though?
Shhhh…. 🤫
Not everybody knows.
Last time I drove through Texas, there was a lot of wind turbines; the politicians of Texas have unfortunately wasted money on those rather than on reliable power, and those decisions were likely made by the sort or scum that has slithered around Texas for decades, in the camp of snakes like George W.
After Snowpocalypse, we found out that those turbines are subsidized, not only to get them working, but enough to force coal plants off-line. Because coal just can't compete with government money. Well of course not, if you keep turning up subsidies until you get the closing of coal plants just like was planned.
So coal couldn't get back on line when the turbines just couldn't do a damn thing in frozen weather.
nationwide they are converting to wind power and decommissioning power plants
but they are doing it too fast
they don't make batteries that can hold enough of a charge so no wind = blackouts
I'm in Houston and no exageration, almost every fucking day either I or someone I witness are inconvenienced, some times in a big way, by someone's inability to speak english.
It's fucking ridiculous. Texas was once a part of Mexico, but it's not anymore, because Mexico got its fucking ass kicked and that's a fact. If you speak english and spanish, cool, but if you won't or can't speak english, get the fuck out.
Seriously. Most countries in "Latin" America are made up of mixed people and different "races," but they recognize they have distinct general cultures and require people to learn spanish, portuguese, or even dutch depending on the country. We should do the exact same. Assimilate and speak english, or fuck off. We're a country, not a charity.
Well that is because we are not attracting the educated classes from Mexico, Central, & South America. We are getting the poor who can barely speak Spanish. Expecting them to learn English is laughable.
I'm in Dallas and some of the contractors that my apartment uses for maintenance can't speak a lick of English either. I guarantee they didn't come over legally. Kick them all out, and take down the extra Spanish signs.
Nothing against Spanish, I took it in high school and loved how easy it was to learn and how cool it sounds. But if you can't speak English, you shouldn't be allowed into the U.S.; that simple.
I was amazed at how many non-English speaking Hispanics there are in: Park City,UT. Ordering a sub at the Quiznos was painful.
They need to fucking go back to where they came from.
Respect this country and speak english, or get the absolute fuck out.
“Latin American” countries have primarily two races. The European descended and the Natives. There has been some interbreeding obviously, but there is still a huge divide between the “whites” and the “Indians”.
The indians are the perpetual needy, useless poor class. They are short, squatty, dark completed. Sound familiar?
They are the ones we identify as “Mexicans” because they are the ones the Europeans down there are all to happy to ship out of their countries. They pack them on busses themselves and send them to us and they will NEVER take them back. Not in a million years!
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/business/growth/article239570433.html
"Miniscule" lol bullshit you Cali fags keep coming out here in the droves and have brought all of silicon Valley with you
Careful your hurting it’s feelings. Lol
CA has 10 million more people than TX... 200k more votes for Trump is hardly impressive.
I admit I know some California transplants that are conservatives. I know some Texas natives that are purple haired communists.
But MOST California transplants are not these exceptions.
No one is complaining about based or MAGA imports . Complaining about people from CA does not necessarily include ALL people from CA.
You've been here for 2 years - you've seen plenty of comments where people from other states encourage MAGA people to get out of CA.
Essentially if your a Republican in California, then please move here anytime you want. If your a California Democrat, then please stay away, we don’t want nor need you or your shitty tech industry.
I'm calling bullshit on that. Got into it with a few Texans awhile back about possibly looking to move there. Do Texans just assume everyone is a liberal that isn't from their shitty state? Texas can get fucked with their illegals and faggot Cali imports. If I leave my state Florida will be my new home.
Don't care, was just pointing out that there are 10 million more Californians than Texans so your point about a few more votes for Trump is irrelevant.
You wouldn't know two shits about steers, lmao who is this homo
Says the Xanax poppin little worm. I’ve actually rode a few steers and have been going to rodeos since your mom shit you out
California has more gun owners too, partly because gun registration is mandatory, so they have actual numbers, partly because most of CA is rural outside of LA, SD, SF.
Exactly this. Bunch of brown fucks crossing the border slowly taking over the southwest.
i don't blame them not one bit. Biden & Harris and every Democrat invited them or did you miss the primaries where they declared their intentions to let every single person safe passage into America. Blame Biden and the Demonrats...economically desperate people are always willing to move to greener pastures when invited.
If all the CA Leftists leave for Texas, we'll take CA back in about 2 minutes.
I was hoping the poison death shot would kill off all of the Leftards, but it's working too slowly.
Texas was blue a lot longer than it was red. Crappy leftist policies still infect it
The Texas house controlled by republicans gave all the high committee positions to democrats. People who think Texas is based have no idea what is going on in Texas politics.
If you want to find RINOs look no further that Texas govt.
If you want to find RINOs just look for anyone with an R next to their name on the TeeVee.
hah, there was actually a proposition on the Republican primary ballot to stop that, the majority approved. https://results.texas-election.com/races. Would be nice to see this in action soon.
this is msnipulated, like Enron
If it was one or maybe even two power plants going down it might be credible.
"six power plants went down unexpectedly Friday"
That seems unlikely to just be random. We aren't anywhere near the really hot weather yet.
yep, I remember that during Enron days. They would call plant managers to shut plants down to manipulate cost of energy. It was really fucked up shit they did. Looks like history repeating itself.
While it's easy to blame them, research how power commodities are sold/traded in Texas.
Texas power sucks.
They went all in on renewables because of tax credits and shut down coal and gas plants that the renewables undercut, then when the renewables fall short, the grid takes a hit.
These problems will continue to repeat until they build a few nuke or coal plants.
WeLl ACKCHUALLY rEnEwAbLeS sToPpEd ThInGs FrOm GeTtInG wOrSe...
(text wall of cherry-picked bits of information, conjectures and ranting follows)
They did justify some of the renewables based on stability, but that only is useful if they were to accept the added cost of that stability.
Instead they chose to harm existing powerplants by allowing insane rate-swings. They should have enforced a rule to normalize rates for powerplants that could provide constant power over the renewables.
Renewables are garbage, but we've had endless wind and sunshine this spring. Nothing makes sense anymore.
No, it makes sense. Texas grew fast and idiot leftists prevented the state from expanding the base load.
Renewables are good, but relying on them ALONE is a mess.
Treating them like any other power plant is a mess, they should treat temporary power plants (like solar/wind) as a reduced provider and shift their rates to keep from directly harming larger more stable (rotating mass / coal, gas, nuclear, hydro, etc.) powerplants.
I can't remember the whole thing, but there is a stupid law or something that Texas MUST be atleast 25% renewable or something by 2025 or crap.
"There is a law that Texas must be handicapped and crippled, so it doesn't get to far ahead of the lesser states."
There I fixed it for ya.
Like the governor?
Finally! Was waiting for someone to make the joke! LOL
Not exactly a new-new law, but yeah. That is pretty much it.
What sort of vermin would put such a stifling law into place?
If I am guessing it right, it is this.
https://programs.dsireusa.org/system/program/detail/182
So starting late-Clinton, Early-Bush.
Is there anything Bush didn't fuck up?
While we’re fixing things…
get too far
The wind blew really hard a few months ago I'm west Texas causing a large influxof unused power. Commanche Peak Nuclear plant was asked to load follow for the wind turbines. Can you imagine the balls it must take to tell a nuclear plant to back off because the wind is blowing? I would bet it cost millions in lost revenue for the company.
Also, how utterly pointless is that? What was accomplished by supplanting nuclear with wind for that period of time? Congratulations to the green brigade, you managed to step on reliable green power with shittier green power.
It will continue as long an Enron 2.0 exists.
This is not what happens in a functioning, first-world nation.
It is when the government is not for the people.
And are literal gangsters.
And should be treated as such.
[John Dellinger has entered chat]
time to reopen Alcatraz
The one thing I think that needs to be pounded home is that this is nothing new.
Governments, by definition, are protection rackets.
Always have been.
Rural municipalities run by honestly elected government officials still seems to work. That is a outlier, and the reason Texas still stands for the time being.
I think that model is making a comeback around the country.
It is the only model of government allowed by, and checked daily by the people that elected it. Small, and personal. The Constitution agreed with this type of government. The celebrity federal politicians that still believe differently are in for a very rude awakening before long. My state senators are MIA. Cruz, and Cornyn should be on the local news every day down on the border of the United States of America defending their state for the people that elected them! I know the money, and politics behind why they are not. They need to know that Americans, and Texans consider them failures, and a waste of time.
if we would deal with things on the state/local level we would not have to worry about the feds
It will still be usurped when the chosenites find out.
Only if we let that happen, but they'll certainly try.
it does but because the mayor knows the judge knows the sheriff knows the banker etc, good ol' boys networks form
that's not necessarily bad but certain persons do get certain favors
and you don't want to piss them off
It’s not our Nation anymore, it was taken over a few months back
You misspelled "centuries".
Since 1913
That was a major benchmark year, for more reasons than most know.
I make the case that it goes back much further. If you'd like to hear that case, hit me up another time.
Or you could just tell me when you have time.
We're run by a combination of foreign interests and utter lunatics. No way in the world that could turn out functional.
Import the 3rd world and you become the 3rd world.
There are no more functioning first world nations.
"After six power plants went down unexpectedly Friday — and with hot weather expected across Texas this weekend — the Electric Reliability Council of Texas on Friday evening is asking consumers to conserve electricity through Sunday."
That's not suspect at all...
I know it’s bad, Fren, but it’s going to get worse.
doubt.jpg
power plants, food factories, baby formula, fuel costs, etc
That infrastructure funding sure is going to work, ain't it?
For Ukraine, maybe. Kek
Poorly managed power grids can cascade failures as load shifts unexpectedly to other sources.
Wow, just wow. No, fuck you. I’m running my A/C. Fix your shit.
We get automated texts and phone calls from our power company lecturing us about "we've done our part to prepare for bad weather, have you?" and other bullshit.
My preparation is paying the fucking bill. This commie nanny state shit pisses me off.
I hate these texts. You want me to pitch in when I pay you, to do one specific thing. This isn’t a team effort, this is a “I paid you so you’re going to do what I paid you for” situation.
The amount of issues that government causes with their meddling and “incentives” is fucking incredible. I couldn’t fuck shit up like they manage to even if I tried.
Time to get a generator
Get a generator since the gov has managed to fuck up the power then realize they also fucked up gas/oil with their commie “go green” nonsense.
Fucking scumbags, all of em.
with no fuel to run it
This was surprisingly refreshing to read
Should I just stay in Wisconsin? I know it's exciting here but we're trying to get to Texas.
Kek. This…
Hot weekend? This is May. Might as well say till November 1st.
It's already hot as hell. This coming summer may wind up being a special kind of brutal.
So the news says.
Up here in NYC I've been rocking sun dresses and shorts. The swamp humidity is back too. Turned on the AC last night It's going to suck this summer
we may all have to become trannies
Speaking of power shortages. They can make an excuse for Dominion and Smartmatic machines not processing votes at the midterms. Don't think these deep state faggots don't have bigger plans with the power grid
Don’t worry, government will fix it.
One nice thing about living in Northern Virginia, and among the DC elites, is that we suspiciously never have power outages, wildfires, water shortages, etc.
As long as it’s not in their back yard they don’t care.
Nothing an SUV into a substation can't fix.
The only times my lib friends have left were J6 and for as much time as possible during mask/passport mandates, weirdly.
ha ha ha
NoVA has a river and no forests
if it ever has fires and droughts, we are in big trouble
"Trust the government."
The nine scariest words in the English language are "I'm from the government and I am here to help" - Ronald Reagan
Time to set it to 68.
Damn, that's going to be uncomfortable. I'd lower it to 65 just to be safe.
Lived in California for many years before I escaped to Texas.
They’ll tell you to conserve and if you don’t they double your bill.
California sucks.
Define conserve...
Gays for Trump
after the ice storm disaster in TX, people were getting $1000s electric bills because of the way the rates are structured
make your house so cold that, if there is an outage, it will take longer to get hot
68? Shit that's when my AC is scheduled to come back on to drop that bad boy back down.
Haha, I keep mine set to 74 most of the time. But I'm not morbidly obese, so that is fine for me.
Texan here who is not a massive pussy like the above posters. 78 during the day when it’s 100 degrees outside is plenty cool enough. Bump it down at night and voila, everyone is happy
This is accurate. But this is a matter of principle that we shouldn’t have to compromise on because our elected “leaders” couldn’t lead their way out of a fucking paper bag.
Damn! 😂
They killed my dad with this rolling blackout shit. If I’m gonna lose my patience and chimp out and go full boog over an issue, it might be this one.
Sauce? Sorry for your loss.
He had an undiagnosed heart murmur and passed out during a winter rolling blackout when the house got cold. He hit his head during the fall. They couldn’t fix either problem until the other improved and he died in ICU.
Texas’ electrical grid can handle air conditioners during the summer. Half the houses here have natural gas heat. Rolling blackouts in winter make no sense. Someone sacrificed people for money.
I'm sorry about your dad 😥
So what is Abbot doing about it? Oh, he indirectly said use less energy. Brilliant move there.
Abbott has always been about using less energy.
Abbott has always done nothing. Well unless it serves himself politically.
Abbott is compromised like any Texas governor would be. Illegal labor, federal money, and race bullshit. Fueled by the good old boy corporations. All flown under the great state of the republic of Texas flag. Future govenors of Texas need to close the border, tell DC to suck it, and stand hard against crony capitalism while breaking all communist inroads. That includes the cartels that run Texas. Abbott does not have the spine to do what is necessary.
Abbott has always been a controlled-opposition faggot.
Do you think the uniparty would allow anything different?
A man can dream. Huffines would have been a good governor, I think.
Allen West too
He had my vote. I think it was interesting that West, and Huffines got the same percentage of votes reported by the local MSM. 17% each if I remember correctly.
I had solar panels installed here in Texas 3 weeks ago and I'm not allowed to turn them on until the power company gives the OK. Freaking ridiculous.
They do that because the city hooks your solar panels up to feed power back to the grid. If your panels are active and someone is working on a powerline that should be dead, but then you start feeding power into it, it can get someone hurt. You can contact an electrician about installing a transfer switch so at any time you can switch the line from the grid to powering only your house. Then the city won't even know you're using them.
t. electrician.
Can you power your home directly with solar panels without being connected to the grid? I purchased the system from a solar company and they won't give me the administrative credentials until the power company gives us permission to operate...
Also you can set up a diesel generator system on your transfer switch as well, so you can use grid power under normal conditions, then if the grid is down you can use the solar in the day and the generator at night.
Yes, but solar panels are very inefficient and you likely don't have a nearly large enough array to handle 100% of your energy needs. You can use it to run your house with greatly reduced power, triaging to decide what you need, based on the power your system can provide.
You can just bypass their controller if you install your own controller. Again, you could theoretically have a transfer switch to change between their controller and yours depending on when you're using your set-up "normally" (connected to grid), and when you are powering only your own house. An electrician should be able to set up an entire parallel system that you just flip 2 switches, to go between standard setup and your own.
Edit: just so you know though, electrical work isn't cheap. Neither are the materials accomplishing this would require.
I haven’t done a whole lot of research into solar for home yet. Even at reduced power, is that in a live use situation during the day? Or is the available energy always going to be limited by the capabilities of whatever intermediary control system is between the panels and load? Solar panels produce DC electricity so wouldn’t there have to be a beefy inverter to feed ac current through the home through a BMS, fed by panels? If that’s the case, I can see solar equipment costing big $$$.
The solar panels indeed produce DC, which is fed into an inverter that is then fed into a controller that distributes the power. You can add in batteries or go straight to the house/grid, but if you were to add the transfer switches, you can get away with just 1 to switch the line from feeding the grid to only feeding the house, or 2 to also bypass the controller, but still keep the BMS if you do it right. The inverter is indeed one of the most expensive components, but you shouldn't need another one unless you have an inverter that is also the controller (which I have not encountered in 8 years of doing electrical work, but likely exists). The most expensive part of a solar system is likely the electrical labor, followed by the panels, then the inverter. If you can save on the labor you can get a solar set up for quite cheap. For example, my father has looked into getting a solar system, but decided not to because the companies he talked to all quoted him around $70k, charging him $150/hr for each of the electrical workers that would be out there, of which there would be many. I offered to do it for him for way cheaper, not even naming a price because since he's my father I would do it for free tbh, and going by 2016 prices that would cut his costs down to $15k or so (i haven't bothered asking the bosses about solar prices in years, since I rarely go on solar jobs any more). In retrospect, I shouldn't have said have an electrician ⁶build an entire parallel system, because while the concepr I was referring to is indeed well-described by that phrase as far as an electrical standpoint, to non-elecrricians it sounds like I mean buying everything twice. What I actually mean is buying 1 set of panels, 1 inverter, 1 BMS, 2 controllers, 1 inverter, 2 disconnects, and 2 transfer switches. Hope this helps. Pelase feel free to ask if you have any further questions.
Texas and its GOP needs to get their shit together.
Florida stole Texas' crown. Another state I'll keep secret for now is like Texas but with less rules, more freedom, and amazing gun laws. And there are more states stepping their game up.
If in the futuee Trump's endorsement efforts prove to be in vain, Texans should ignore him and vots for people that'll actually unfuck their slowly worsening state.
I'm a transplant to Texas. Texas is GOP. It is not necessarily conservative. I've had a hell of a time finding people who have gone as far down the rabbit holes as I have.
We’re out here, just few and far between.
If you get out of the big cities, you'll find nothing but rabbit hole people.
As a Texan, Texas is a losing battle. Florida is the last bastion of America at this point.
It's demographics. Only a matter of time at this point.
Texas is the last stand for world freedom. All patriots need to move to Texas. If Texas falls, the world falls.
No offence, but that is the mindset that killed California.
It's not too late for Texas.
I'm jealous of FL because their governor actually has cojones.
Comanche peak nuclear plant is in refueling outage, 1200 megawatts coming back online next week
that's 1.20 jiggawatts, i think
Great Scott!
They got back to mode 4 this week. Things are heating up.
Better than in a blizzard I guess
This is a practice run for compliance like they did with the flu in 2020. Dark Winter after they get slaughtered in the midterms is going to be the response. $8.50 a gallon. Yeah, it can happen
What? THIS is the practice run? Not the fucking freeze out they ran almost 2 years ago?
Yes, it's time for republicans to take back control and support Israel
Texafornia needs a new flag to match its invasive species.
Rainbow donkey
Star of David
Mexican.
inb4 "muh climate change!"
Moms hoarding baby formula
Dads hoarding power generators
Food and ammo.
Just bought a $200 7cu ft freezer to start storing. Shit's about to get real....everywhere.
Hope you got a good backup generator or all that food is going to waste at the first blackout.
Beans and rice, together a whole protein. Stock up.
Yup. It’s catch up time now.
They’re asking people in CA to take 4 minute showers kek
Except politicians and celebrities. They can use all they want.
They need it for their rain showers with 9 wall jets
You don’t need much longer tbh
Only if you want to actually be clean.. Time yourself, if you're properly washing with soap everywhere you're in there a lot longer than you think.
I've never taken a 4 minute shower in my life. lol
Oh look another coincidence
In before retards on spot pricing bellyaching about their $10,000 bills when they didn't cut back usage one watt...
Tried to save 10% in the golden Trump years w/ flex pricing....cost your entire life savings
When did Texas get so bad at generating electricity?
Once gov started incentivizing “green energy”
It's like leftists are trying as hard as they can to ruin everything. Let's tell kids to be trannies, pedos and jack off and let's destroy factories, print a bunch of money and give it to other countries who can give it back to our friends, and lets mass inject poison in people, and arrest anyone who complains or says anything we dislike. Yay!
They're desperately trying to pull the plug on the entire country. 2016 rattled them, and I think MAGA, in the long term, has broken them.
Is "dont mess with Texas" a sliding scale kind of thing or.....?
Yeah, you can mess with Texas without much to worry about. Covid lockdowns and shutdowns showed us that.
Depends. I just fired up all the space heaters, and turned the ac down.
Decentralize the grid!!!! Imagine if the schools and government encouraged individual independence in all aspects of your life power, food, defense how strong America would be!
Betting it was the Chinese who have their hands all over our grid thanks to RINO Abbott the faggot (who Trump endorsed for some reason over Allen West)...
One way to spot a Uniparty leader is to see what the Dems and Rinos run against them. Look at McCONnell in his last senate run. No chance Kentucky votes for the Lesbo. Look at who Abbott gets to run against. Beto is such damaged goods in TX he couldn't beat anybody.
Now I supported Allen West over Abbott but now understand why Trump did not endorse him. He ran a shit campaign in the primaries! If he actually beat Abbott in the primaries, not so sure he would have did well in the general election.
Allen West got second place on a 3 million dollar campaign fund. That's going against Abbott's 44 million and Huffines 11 million. That speaks volumes. Abbott is corrupt and Trump was wrong to endorse Abbott.
It wasn’t about $$ for campaign, it was about energy. Getting his name and message out there. There were already doubts about West after he only served a year as TX GOP chairman before quitting to run for governor. And these were not my doubts, I heard them from other people. I’m here and watching campaigns, his was no good.
No, it wasn't a great campaign, but there was a ton of misinformation and censorship too. West wasn't allowed on the news channels like Abbott was and he actually quit as GOP chairman to retire. He only ran because people petitioned him to do so (myself included). The RINOs in Texas worked hard to bury West and Trump could have changed it all by hosting him during a rally.
From what I saw, Abbott remained hidden during the entire campaign season. Not sure what you mean. Never heard anything about West retiring. I did hear, when he stepped down from TX GOP, that he was thinking about running for governor. I heard doubts about West from grassroots activists. It shocked me. I like Allen West but I think he should have ran a more bold campaign. He needs a new campaign manager. If he had won the primary and kept his campaign the same, I’d be very worried for the general election.
No, he had ads all over TV. He attended Trump rallies too.
That is not true. He stepped down to retire. He only ran for governor soon after because people petitioned him to do so. I was one of the thousands who signed it begging him to run. His very first campaign announcement was him acknowledging the petition.
You can still vote for Allen West and get the message out. Ffs you people are automata.
I voted for West, but there is no runoff for Abbott. West is done for now. You fucking dumb faggot. You are retarded.
Translation: winds not blowin so fuck you taxpayers.
But I was told more immigrants would be good for the state?
Diversity is our strength. Unfortunately for you they all look and sound the same. No Swedes or Germans storming the border?
Hi y'all! Texan here! REPUBLICANS have controlled the Governor's office since 1995. The state senate since 1997. The state House since 2003. So y'all can FUCK RIGHT OFF with your MuH CaLiFoRNIa bullshit. Californians didn't screw up energy in this state.
who did?
I grew up there, but never saw those darn windmills until after I moved. I plan to go back, but that needs to get fixed.
What happens when Greentard religious zealots get in unelected "expert" positions of authority in Austin.
If this is something that has been experienced from time to time in Texas over the course of many years then fine, but if it is an unusual or new occurrence, then by now we should realize that it is likely part of the deliberate attack on the people from the regime.
This is a boon for leftists. Any time ERCOT posts a tweet, they astroturf the comments with pro-Beto posts.
Who cares? Twitter isn't real life. Who is that going to influence other than losers who already love Beta O'Fag?
Maybe the govt should cut the use of power to the holding facilities FIRST. Anyone in there is supposed to be used to 3rd world living and they won't mind .
But muh tesla. How can I drive to get my daily pcr test and Depop booster? Enter elon with the new color matched tesla trailer that pulls smoothly behind your tesla car while effortlessly charging it from a multi fuel generator. You can burn coal, diesel, gasoline, restaurant grease, logs, pellets, baby seals, junk mail, plastic bottles, evidence, secret bathroom servers, Conservative ballots, and extra illegal ballots that were not needed for the steal.
Texan here. Thermostat currently set at 66°, just like always.
Forced on my apartment complex. I can't wait to get out of the city.
You ain’t gotta ask this Texan twice. Bills have gotten crazy. Gas too. It’s so bad I’ve started sleeping at night again. I was trying to be awake at night because I’ve been working in the attic. I’m about finished. If it wasn’t so dusty I’d already have a clothesline.
Deliberate.
I don't think they have a choice, as I understand the Texas system, the cost of electricity is on some kind of sliding scale. It was a year or two ago during a winter storm where people ended up with electricity bills in the tens of thousand of dollars.
Only retards on spot pricing plans. Cheaper 99% of the time, way more expensive 1% of the time.
Most Texans are on regular pre priced plans.
I guess that explains it, seems to me that those people should have had a auto cutoff system in place much like people with data plans can set up auto cutoff's. In fact I'm one of them.
The power company did everything in their power to warm people the spot price was going up. The people best served on that plan switched to gas generators. Clueless idiots didn't.
No. Those were idiots crying foul when gaming the system no longer worked to their advantage with spot pricing
I work in the industry. The "system" isn't a sliding scale per se. The people that got stuck with high bills were those that bought their energy from a few energy retailers that did not financially hedge against price swings AND had contracts that allowed them to pass those costs through. Shady beyond belief. Most retailers and customers were not hit like this though.
Yes, in Colorado Springs the geniuses signed onto some form of this and we were gauged. Last month’s bill was the final payoff for the Jan or Feb 2019 or 2020 freeze and price hikes in TX. Rep from power company said that was the reason for the high bills we paid for 18 months. Ppl raised Hell at city council, and I am pretty sure that the powers that be are no longer buying on risky plans.
Yep, some of these Retailers are shady, while some are really really great. You have to do a lot of due diligence though to make sure you get a good one AND don't get suckered into a bait-and-switch once your initial term is up.
It's a little bit like insurance...what good is it to have the lowest rates if your claims always get denied?
Thank you, do those plans still exist or did the Texas legislature get involved?
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/30/us/griddy-texas-electricity-bills-settlement/index.html
Archived link for those who think CNN sucks: https://archive.ph/FfLr4
CNN? What kind of faggots do we have visiting here.
Feel free to find your own links then. Don't be a dick.
Thank you.
It depends what program you’re on. Kinda like Smart Hours but more of a corporate/ residential thing.
And literally nothing they could do about it. I doubt many people with those bills ever recovered from them.
Actual Ercot source :
https://www.ercot.com/news/release?id=8b772e9e-51d0-4c3c-e653-1e5079f28e89
Texas grid capacity is normally in the 60k to 70k range.
Peak demand tomorrow is around 67k MW (estimated)
Peak supply tomorrow is right around that range, 68k MW (estimated)
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/supplyanddemand
Grid dashboard
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
Real time conditions
https://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_conditions.html
LIFE PRO TIP FROM A TEXAN : DRINK ICE WATER TO STAY COOL !
I'm in Florida. I keep my AC at 78 in summer and use a 72" ceiling fan on lowest setting in my main room to move air in volume but slowly. The fan does not increase my power use much at all on that slow speed and I stay cool inside. It works out well and my power bill is only around $100/mo or less.
edit, just checked. My bill for last month was $84. I have a house. It is not a grand huge home, but a modest house that blends well into my rural area of homes.
What sort of damning info is going to drop? :wink:
Illegals get double though, so it's all good.
Texas could fix this, but the PUC doesn't want to raise rates to pay for it. It will take a few years of this garbage for voters to get mad enough to change the political landscape in favor of higher rates and the buildout of more fossil generation.
During the big winter event though, renewables were just a side-story. The real problem is lack of winterization, which is even more costly and actually has downsides in a hot environment like Texas.
Abbott is a faggot. Abbott likes the CCP.
Not very good at getting the word out. First I'm hearing about it.
The only way to fix this is to send $40 billion to Ukraine.
With $40 Billion one could build a wall around the entire US.
at least they have gas cheaper than the rest of us.
Seems like they ought to harness all that heat and sunlight to generate electricity. The cost per kilowatt-hour is way down these days.
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Decentralization is the name of the game for the future.
Get ready, pedes. Gonna be a very bumpy summer.
Probably not an accident.
Seriously, when are we as a country going to cut the shit about nuclear energy? Retards run this country.