Thread: U.S. energy crisis leaves millions without power in big freeze

Originally Posted by misskit

Lights come back on in Texas

...then at last the people will be able to see on TV the wonderful accomplishment in the space, it will give them a good feeling what their country can achieve in the technique...

Originally Posted by Klondyke

How much of the promised has been done?

Very little - or you could do your own research . . .


LOOK, Klondyke, a wall!!!!

Mexico is paying for it

Why do you keep posting a picture of your dinner?

Originally Posted by misskit

^If only the USA was more like Russia!

Thank Putin this woman has a concrete electrical post! Helps to keep her warm in the winter storm.

Quite an achievement that they still have an electric power and water supply every terrible siberian winter (that's a piece of cake for them) after centuries of their beloved Tsar's care (not speaking about the communists' care) and after 2 big wars destroying the country.

Perhaps that's because of the generous help of the friends abroad who are so heart-breakingly concerned about the wellness of the population (OK, not of all, just some of them)...

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Why do you keep posting a picture of your dinner?

I don't eat meat . . . bloody forum glitch . . . when posting it is the correct picture and changes after . . . sigh

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Quite an achievement that they still have an electric power and water supply every terrible siberian winter

Yeah. Right. Thousands without heating, power in Russia after ice storm

President Biden declares major disaster for much of Texas following severe winter storm



The move unlocks federal money for the state after a dayslong freeze resulted in deaths, power outages and boil water orders.

President Biden declares major disaster for much of Texas following severe winter storm

Why has that midget slick not responded?

Originally Posted by bsnub

Why has that midget slick not responded?

Whats to discuss?

Texas keeping out the Federal gubment by having its own electrical grid? Deregulation causing a power failure on a massive scale in a Republican state?

Originally Posted by misskit

Texas keeping out the Federal gubment by having its own electrical grid? Deregulation causing a power failure on a massive scale in a Republican state?

One of the major reasons they weren't able to keep up was due to federal environmental policy not allowing them to ramp up production, and unless im mistaken, the fed allowed them to ramp up after it got bad. If left on their own, it wouldn't have been as bad.

Deregulation didn't cause it. Them having their own grid didn't cause it.

What caused it was a combination of several things:

Federal environmental policy.

Once in a century cold, ice, and snow.

Plants not being winterized for once in a century winter storms.

Peoples homes and water pipes not being winterized for once in a century storms (insulated/buried)

This kind of thing happens in Cali almost every summer in a regular year, with politicians openly asking for people to turn the temps up in their homes. Thats a direct result of state policy and green initiatives hamstringing the state, not a 100 year storm.

Sooooo other than the usual suspects mocking a "dirty red state" im not seeing what the big deal is. They will bolster the issue moving forward, im sure.

Originally Posted by Slick

Federal environmental policy.

How do you come to that conclusion?

Originally Posted by misskit

How do you come to that conclusion?

'Cuz he's a dumb trumpanzee and that's what it sez on Parler?

Originally Posted by misskit

How do you come to that conclusion?

The Department of Energy issued an emergency order allowing several Texas power plants to produce as much electricity as possible, a move expected to violate anti-pollution rules that comes amid a deepening electricity crisis in the state that has cut power to millions of homes.

The Energy Department order, requested by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, authorizes power plants throughout the state to run a maximum output levels, even as such a move is anticipated to result in a violation of limits of pollution.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

Originally Posted by Slick

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

So Texas' refusal to join the national grid, and Texas' refusal to force the power companies to prepare for adverse cold weather is somehow the fault of the Federal government is it?

Especially when there was a similar incident in 2011, and a series of recommendations from the Federal goverment to mitigate such problems were resoundingly ignored by Texas state officials.

Presumably because they were trousering wads of campaign cash from the power companies who didn't want to have to spend any of their lovely profits preparing for this kind of thing.

Well maybe they'd better start getting used to it.

It's called climate change and scientists have been warning these greedy buffoons about it for decades.

Texas officials knew winter storms could leave the state’s power grid vulnerable, but they left the choice to prepare for harsh weather up to the power companies — many of which opted against the costly upgrades. That, plus a deregulated energy market largely isolated from the rest of the country’s power grid, left the state alone to deal with the crisis, experts said.

I see they've been trying to blame wind turbines, when only 13% of those failed to operate.

Silly republicans, always fucking too busy trousering cash to worry about the common good.

Texas officials didn't heed warnings before winter storm power outages | The Texas Tribune

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

From what I have read I think we might be talking about a once in a five decades event. If you have evidence from a good source to prove otherwise I'd like to see it.

It would appear that you don't have a particularly well developed ability to think.

In 1989, in 2003, and in 2011, the state experienced, to varying degrees, simultaneous shutdowns of power plants and parts of its natural gas–producing infrastructure, as significant swaths of both of those critical systems were incapacitated by arctic temperatures, triggering blackouts.

The Texas Blackout Is the Story of a Disaster Foretold – Texas Monthly.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

It would appear that you don't have a particularly well developed ability to think.

Compared to the intellectual powerhouse and keeper of all wisdom worth keeping that is Barry Harracuda, perhaps not.

Is it my imagination or are you perchance a man not completely certain of his intellectual prowess. You definitely check all the boxes.

Anyway, do carry on.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

Compared to the intellectual powerhouse and keeper of all wisdom worth keeping that is Barry Harracuda, perhaps not.

No, compared to a small, retarded protozoan.

Ron Paul: Unintended Consequences and The Texas ‘Big Freeze’ Energy Disaster
February 22, 2021

Last week Texas experienced a cold snap that resulted in serious statewide damage, death, and destruction. The collapse of the state’s energy grid left millions of Texans in the dark and freezing for days at a time. Tragically, at least 30 people died.

There are many reasons why Texas became like a Third World country, and we should be careful not to pin all the blame on just one factor. But it seems clear that the disaster was to a large degree caused by political decisions to shift toward “green” energy generated from solar and wind and by Governor Abbott’s authoritarian Covid restrictions.

Abbott, who won a “wind leadership” award just this month, oversaw the near-collapse of wind energy generation last week. Yet the politicization of energy generation in favor of “green” alternatives over natural gas and other fossil fuels has led to the unintended consequences of freezing Texans facing multiple millions of dollars in property damage and worse.

Additionally, federal emissions and other restrictions forced Texas to beg Washington for permission to generate power at higher levels in anticipation of unprecedented demand. Governor Abbott finally received permission from the Department of Energy on February 14th, but by then many facilities found themselves off-line due to freezing conditions.

Why should the Federal government be allowed to freeze Texans to death in the name of controlling emissions from energy generation plants? It’s a classic example of politics over people. I guess if you want to make a “Green New Deal” omelet, you have to break a few eggs.

While Governor Abbott was quick to blame energy generators and even the state Electric Reliability Council of Texas, NBC News in Dallas reported that ERCOT “did not conduct any on-site inspections of the state’s power plants to see if they were ready for this winter season. Due to COVID-19 they conducted virtual tabletop exercises instead – but only with 16 percent of the state’s power generating facilities.”

Governor Abbott’s authoritarian Covid executive orders at least indirectly led to lax inspection, maintenance, and winterization of wind and other energy generation plants.

But Texas did not only freeze because of Abbott’s Covid restrictions. For the better part of a year thousands of businesses have been destroyed. Recovering drug addicts and alcoholics have relapsed. Depression and suicides have skyrocketed. Children have been deprived of education.

And for what? Texas with Abbott’s restrictions fared no better than Florida with no restrictions when it comes to Covid cases and deaths. The Texas governor knew that months ago when the data from Florida proved that lockdowns, masks, and other restrictions had no effect. But he refused to change course. He refused to follow the brave lead of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and open Texas completely.

Politicians too stubborn or fearful to change course when facts dictate otherwise do not deserve to remain in office. Governors Gavin Newsom in California and Andrew Cuomo in New York are finally facing consequences for their Covid authoritarianism. When the smoke clears – and it is rapidly clearing – many more of these petty tyrants will fall. That list of deposed Covid tyrants may well include Texas Governor Greg Abbott – and the slumbering Texas state legislature – as well.

ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/february/22/unintended-consequences-and-the-texas-big-freeze-energy-disaster/

Ron Paul, corona virus conspiracy promoter and all round nut case.

Originally Posted by misskit

Ron Paul, corona virus conspiracy promoter and all round nut case.

Oh FFS, is klondyke trotting out that mental case now?

What a dick.

Originally Posted by misskit

Ron Paul, corona virus conspiracy promoter and all round nut case.

. . . and Klondyke. What a great pair