What a tool. Temporarily? It's still out. Not enough liberating technology? What an idiot. All we need is to be liberated from these idiot democrats. They eliminated coal. They want to eliminate fracking, which will kill natural gas. They want to eliminate all fossil fuels. The obvious problem with their idiot ideas? They want to kill all sources of power that are readily available today with no plan at all for the fact that there is nothing to replace it. Hence the situation in Texas, and that's just the beginning.
Is that like his statement that government needs to get these "private" companies back into energy production? Didn't he actually say that natural gas and nuclear plants have failed? You know, in the same interview where he failed to mention that half the wind power has failed?
This didn't happen in 1983 and 1989 with similar winter storms. What is one of the biggest changes? Coal. They've eliminated coal. It wasn't private companies that did that.
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.
The one word I'm not hearing in this whole mess is Coal! In Texas, all the talk is about natural gas, wind, and the big lie, peak demand! What's the biggest change in Texas since similar freezes in 1983 and 1989? Coal!
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!
Again, i heard no one mentioning "line outages" yesterday. That to me is like the situation where we have a wet freeze. All the trees freeze falling and damaging the lines. That takes out power to the local community. The supply is there, but it can't be delivered. The entire cities of Galveston, Pearland, and large parts of Houston were out of power all day. They said those were all intentionally switched off to protect the grid.
I appreciate your comments on the natural gas situation. I'd like to know what percentage of natural gas production we lost yesterday. That on a day when no one would even dare mention that we lost 50% of wind power. They barely mentioned wind all day long. Abbott blamed it on natural gas and nuclear without even a mention of the word wind.
I think the overall point for all of us is that both state and federal government have so corrupted energy production that with whacko liberal environmental policies and incompetence that we're literally left shaking in our boots all day with temps in the teens. Abbott blamed it on "private" companies over and over! That didn't happen in 83 or 89, and we know why right? No mention about the word coal all day yesterday either. No one should accept that this is just the new normal.
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?
They missed the reference to wind farms. They missed calling home and encouraging those they left behind to step up to the lead Texas has on fully embracing dependency on wind power. Half the capacity failed yesterday right when we needed it. Windspeeds were up big time yesterday Texas leads the nation with 23% dependency on wind power. Cities in the Austin area like Georgetown have tried, and failed, to become 100% dependent.
I'm no expert. I read an article explaining the nonsense of the big California wind farms. The cost model doesn't include some of the expensive maintenance costs. Rather than lose big money repairing them, they abandon them. Not dismantle and dispose of them, they can't afford that either. They abandon them leaving the blades spinning and killing birds so no one will know how many ugly windmills in the field are never going to work again.
Oh and btw, let's not forget that when the power plant fails and can't produce power ever again, and while they leave the blades spinning indefinitely until it's eventually abandoned (until ultimately the tax payer has to pay to dismantle it) the windmill will continue to kill birds indefinitely!
I very rarely drink soda, but I just happened to be drinking a Coke when I watched this. I poured the rest out, and now I want to throw up!