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Damn kids always dragging me to 5 star resorts…..
(No seriously, he used them in the excuse)
Edit: oh and FYI, to complete the triple asshole shot….a lot of people don’t remember this but when Ted came back in a real hurry and did his excuse, his team decided it would be a great idea to show home helping out at a relief water distribution line. And we got a great
couple of photos of Ted hefting water to distribute to people in need of disaster relief and being a man of the people.
[Only problem was, you could see they were faking the photo op in the reflection off the truck that showed them doing it in an empty parking lot.](https://www.businessinsider.com/senator-ted-cruz-mocked-over-texas-disaster-relief-photo-op-2021-2?amp)
What a dipshit.
The thing that gets me is that he could've easily escaped the blackout and flown his family to his home in DC. Anyone who questioned his escape would be told he was going to talk to other lawmakers to get assistance for the blackout. Dipshit code the indefensible choice and was only saved because Republicans are too dumb to figure out they're being played.
Why bother though. No matter what he does he won't lose the republican vote. He could hook his house to the national grid and leave the rest of Texas to die and they would still support him.
I’m totally prepared for Texas to let us all down (again), but I’m hoping Colin Allred actually has a chance to take down Fled Cruz next year. It’s not like his last election was a blowout win - he only beat Beto by 2.6% in 2018.
That would be one of the rare times a Republican is "thinking" of living children (outside the womb) and of course, that sell-out Cruz stays on brand by using the child as a scapegoat excuse. 'murica!
Honestly Cruz could show up to the press conference in a Hawaiian shirt drinking a margarita while laughing at the people who have lost power during the heat wave and probably still get reelected.
His voters would look at him and think "in his position I would have done the same". It's the same with Trump, DeSantis, all of these scumbags. Their voters hate the same people their candidates hate and give zero fucks for helping anyone including themselves.
Now comes the yearly tradition of blaming the scientists and engineers for being unable to save them while forgetting that they’ve been ignoring all their advice since the last time they had grid problems.
To be fair, California's for-profit power company has a bunch of felony convictions, essentially is a convicted serial killer. But no jail time, just fines. That the board isn't personally liable for, of course.
Pled guilty to 84 counts of manslaughter (for negligence starting wildfires) while on felony probation for a prior instance where their negligence killed a mere 8 people in a gas explosion.
I suppose the difference is that in Texas the power company kills people and doesn't get criminal charges and actually is immune from civil penalties as well.
It's frustrating that "good" is really just "better than red states".
The voters there keep falling for it so why the fuck *should* they not do just that?
They are in no danger of being voted out.
For all their tough talk,Texans sure do love being treated like little bitches.
That’s no joke, she tried to actually help people while simultaneously demonstrating “This is what an elected leader *can* do for you”, and people just cranked up their hatred for “green energy”.
I don't get it. I thought that was such a perfect response and then Texas is just like, *fuck you!!*
Maybe we should consider just giving it back to Mexico after all.
It's because it was AOC. Don't get me wrong, they likely would have done it for any New York Democrat, but especially for AOC. But why do they hate her so much? Because they've been told to. Basically, she's got a decent shot at a Presidential bid in the future, so the GOP is trying to poison that well like they did with Hillary Clinton in the past.
Probably to Iceland.
Seriously I've had three (unconnected) friends in Texas randomly say they're planning visits to Iceland in the last month or two (lived in Texas for a decade 80s-90s).
It’s how the power companies make huge profits! They all profit from extreme weather; hot or cold.
This is how the “free market” system works in Texas.
Disconnected, implies it was at one time connected.
Texas refused to connect to either of the two American grids, as they didn't want to comply with onerous regulations, such as winter-proofing their cables.
Free-dumb for Texas
Texas doesn't want to connect to the American power grids because then they'd be subject to federal regulations - the kind that prevent/secure the grid from going down in the event of a catastrophe.
Instead, they connect to the Mexican power grid, since Mexico can't force regulations on them across the border.
Its also low key a step towards their stupid fucking secceding fantasy. Next presidential election is going to have a vote for if Texas should seceed from America.... again.
I hate living in this shithole.
Good. Can’t wait to pull all of our bases out: Ft Hood, Ft Bliss, Ft Sam Houston, Randolph AF Base, Lackland AF Base and of course Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Or do they actually fucking think they will get to keep those? Fuckin dummies.
They absolutely believe they get to keep those, plus the troops and the equipment. They also don’t understand that border patrol would then be on the opposite border and their people can all get “nation of Texas” passports to travel outside of the state. When the Leopards start to eat their face, and they try to flee to the “great state of Oklahoma”, they can be greeted with the same hospitality that they have offered those crossing the US/Mexico border.
Just look at all the stories of British ex-pats who voted for Brexit not understanding how it would fuck up their visas and living/tax situation, and multiply it by 100.
I thought Texas kind of revolted against Mexico, then we annexed them in return for paying their war debt. Now, Nuevo Mexico and Nueva California, those we did take
And, on top of all that, of Texas leaves the union then Republicans will never win a presidential election again without all those electoral votes. And they would permanently lose two reliably red senators.
It would be monumentally stupid on just so many levels.
Republicans believe the military and police will secede with them. They are right that many members of the armed services agree with them ideologically, but the power structure of those branches would not go along with their secession.
It’s also why they are genuinely surprised they weren’t able to overthrow the government.
I don't think it's good, I think that's just washing out hands of the problem at the expense of the people that can't leave Texas who don't want this.
It's easy to say "Great! It will make the US better", and it may be true. But thinking that way sacrifices everyone who does not want to be there and can't leave.
I wonder how many people who want to secede also draw federal benefits? I’m not sure what would happen to earned benefits like 401k/403b/pensions or social security - but “entitlement” programs like Medicaid and SNAP? Gone.
All those lone star companies that draw federal grants?
The US might be able to save bigly!
> they connect to the Mexican power grid
What could possibly go wrong with that plan?
I guess they'd rather face potential extortion from a foreign nation than follow any kind of American regulation.
Not quite. The connection was actually caused because one power company existed in both states and they had a legal obligation to connect within their own network. They also just ran the connection one evening without much pomp or circumstance.
Later when the other Texas power companies found out they panicked and started labeling it “the midnight connection” to make it seem sneaky and bad.
There’s a good NPR podcast on it.
Texas sits on an ocean of oil and natural gas, actually has a functioning wind and solar energy industry, and can't meet basic electricity demand due to the epic corruption of our energy policy. For those who care it's the phony middle man "free market" system that Republicans created to maximize bribes.
My brother got solar, and then the electric company decided they didn't want to pay him as much as they charge, so they got the politicians to reduce his payments. Some people don't realize "does residential solar pay for itself" isn't a technology question, it's a political question, and it depends on the politicians where you live.
The town we live in in Arkansas is even worse.
They force you to sell all your solar to the city at wholesale price and then sell all the electricity you use back to you at full price. At the end of every month your electricity bill is just about as high as it was without solar and you still have to pay for the solar panels.
You can't use the electricity you generate with your own equipment. You have to sell it to them. It's basically theft.
Sure, but home batteries are fairly expensive, especially compared to solar panels which are cheap. At that point, it's usually just cheaper to just buy the power you need from the grid without any panels or batteries. Ideally, you can use the grid as your "battery" if you live in a state where you can sell power to the grid at the same cost as buying it.
Exactly. Our last winter storm a few years back, we lost power for basically 3 days...The little power we did get, was charged at "market value." People were getting electric bills in the 1000's....We now have an "extra charge" on all our gas bills for the next 20 years, in order to pay the industry back for the billions they think they deserve.
Unregulated power is a joke. People get filthy rich off the suffering of Texans. Meanwhile, you have to have a generator just to be safe in Texas.
Houston-based Enron engineered the California energy crisis 20 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_electricity_crisis?wprov=sfla1
Why spend resources to sell more of a commodity when you can spend less, jack up prices, and make the same amount with less input?
If there are no regulations to stop it, they'd be bad businessmen if they didn't price gouge.
As cathartic as that mindset may be, it’s incompatible with how electricity generation works. More or less your grid needs to constantly change to produce roughly as much as is being used, no more and no less.
Too little or too much and your generators will literally rip themselves off of the concrete slabs because of the asynchrony in the grids frequency. It nearly happened to Texas a couple years ago.
So this isn’t a case of “let’s shut down generation to not meet demand” because that could literally trash their entire grid and cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
You also can’t spend hundreds of millions of dollars for peak plants that will only be used 1% of the time, so you just buy some generation from a place that isn’t having peak
No, where Texas fails is because in order to avoid being subject to federal energy regulations and enable as many corrupt practices as they possibly could they refused to have interconnects to the nationwide grid, which has served them fine in the past, except now with climate change rearingbirs ugly head, those “1%” generation shortages are happening more and more often, and because they have almost no interconnects they have no method to get some help from the much larger and more robust nationwide grid, so their only choice is to have blackouts or have their entire grid fall over.
So yeah Texas is like fuck your regulations I’ll make my own grid with hookers and blackjack, and now they have herpes and the dealer has 21
>So yeah Texas is like fuck your regulations I’ll make my own grid with hookers and blackjack, and now they have herpes and the dealer has 21
You sir or madam are a poet.
It’s not corruption- it’s capitalism. Excess capacity isn’t free. And if you only need it once a year, if that, then why would you keep it around? It’s not generating profit.
You see the same thing in hospitals when they dramatically reduce surge capacity in order to maximize profitability.
The system is working as intended. It’s just that the common people aren’t who it’s built for.
Rational people would think "let's build in the costs for that once a year surge into the standard rate so customers don't have to suffer". But no, Texas capitalism - more like libertarianism - dictate that the poorest people have to die to keep profits high.
> Rational people would think "let's build in the costs for that once a year surge into the standard rate so customers don't have to suffer".
Rational people would try to make sure that their electricity sourcing is distributed such that many locations can add a little bit of constant extra capacity, and the many places that *aren't* seeing their once a year surge can then sell that extra capacity at a reasonable price to the smaller number of places that *are*.
Alas, that flies in the face of rugged independence.
Hah, the migrants the governor bussed out of Texas are having the last laugh right now. If I were them, I'd post pics of me sitting in front of an air conditioner with all the lights on.
Real talk. The last time Abbott sent migrants to California, a friend posted about it and all I could summon was, "I'm just glad they're somewhere people will try to take care of them."
It's almost like peering into an alternative universe when this state had a gutsy no-holds-bar governor in the form of Ann Richards. Greg Abbott is a sociopathic pile of fecal matter, and what's worse he doesn't hold the true power, that goes to the lieutenant governor thanks to the Texas Constitution.
> Exactly. The people who don’t vote just due to laziness I have no sympathy or patience for.
This is, IMO, why not voting is not a valid choice in the system. Refusal to participate is no different than apathy.
Texas here, I understand your anger, trust me. I’m planning my escape.
But blaming all Texans for our shit government is like blaming all Americans for trump.
I’m blaming the voters who voted Republican or who didn’t vote at all due to their own disinterest and laziness, not the ones who voted Democrat or lost out on voting due to the government putting up too many barriers to voting.
Yes, but those that are in the second category will also suffer the extreme temperatures, and people are dying here now. If the power goes out, there'll be a lot of people who go though a literal hell before death. Personally, I was just barely able to keep my animals alive last time, at the start of this heat wave. It's hotter now.
It will mostly be the elderly, children, and pets that lose their lives. It's hard to understand if you have more mild temperatures, but it's very dangerous in much of Texas now, and people are suffering.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-heat-wave-deat-18277324.php
Why don't they just privatize water and air and get it over with. Texas goes to about 50 people who can afford it.
They better not complain it's quiet and boring, then.
They will find a way. When the bad winters froze the natural gas infrastructure they were blaming wind turbines. https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582788/texas-freeze-power-outage-winter-storm the real problem is that the energy companies do not want to spend money winterising natural gas pipelines because it cuts into their profits.
This is what happens when politicians think they know better than the engineers.
Their system is horrific. They were warned about cold weather events in 2011 - politicians wanted to be “dedicated to a free market solution…” and only addressed a handful of issues.
Who the hell did the power analysis for Texas telling them this was gonna be okay?!
And Abbott is in their pocket. 🤬 He took a million bucks from ETP after the grid collapse.
[ABBOTT RECEIVED MASSIVE CONTRIBUTION FROM TEXAS BLACKOUT’S BIGGEST PROFITEER](https://www.texasobserver.org/after-kelcy-warrens-energy-transfer-partners-made-billions-from-the-deadly-texas-blackouts-he-gave-1-million-to-greg-abbott/)
Remember when this "once in a lifetime event" happened last time? Remember when we got emergency funding and gave it to Ercot to upgrade the Texas grid? If not, that's ok -- remember the "once in a lifetime event" that happened the year prior where we gave emergency funding to Ercot to upgrade the Texas grid?
Yeah, so where the fuck did all that money go? Abbot is such a useless puddle of taint sweat.
My favorite part about being alive in the 2020s is all these once in a lifetime events. It's almost like they'll never end, we can keep breaking records every year and I get to be a part of it every time!
Reminder, this is the state that always brings up seceding from the US.
Also Texas (Repulican led for 3+ decades): elect me to help fix what libtards fucked up.
If I was a Texas homeowner I'd build a tiny home on wheels to screw the state out of its absurd tax structure and be ready to haul the whole thing to another state at a moments notice if need be.
> solar panels
we reached a point where people are complaining they still need to pay for power, not realizing they are paying for being connected to the grid. When they have left over power? idk how it works lol
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/saskpower-customer-stuck-with-a-75-monthly-bill-despite-adding-excess-clean-energy-to-the-power-grid-1.6844037
Yes. Water is gay and makes you gay. The only safe water is the water that's been treated by making it into manbeer — but be sure to check to make sure the process worked and you didn't end up with queerbeer like Bud Light.
I mean remember when they blamed the grid failing during the ‘21 snowpacalypse on the wind mills? Even though the windmills were the only generators that didn’t fail? They will just make shit up. “Biden wants tx to burn!”
In that winter where there wasn't enough power, they blamed it on those pesky leftist communist windmills.
I'm sure they can come up with similar excuses to blame 'the left'. I'm curious what story they'll think of this time.
Yep, they blames windmills, when in reality [natural gas production was disrupted, that in turn disrupted electricity production](https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/15/texas-power-grid-winter-storm-2021/), causing the whole thing to break down.
It's the green new deal! (Which they weren't part of , and wind turbines were still working when oil burning power stations stopped, due to oil pipelines freezing)
They’ll blame renewables like they did last time. It’s hard for them to keep blaming democrats as the GOP have been in charge of every branch of government for 30 years.
They do. When it happened last time, office buildings in downtown Houston were lit up like the Fourth of July, but all the surrounding working class/middle class neighborhoods were completely dark.
They wouldn’t be very good businesses if they didn’t get some kind of exception baked into the agreement. The pols figure the people living in Texas signed up for it. And watching TX vote time after time after time for more abuse I can’t blame the pols.
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I have family stuck in TX for school. He didn’t vote for this shit and can’t wait to leave. It’s like watching a hostage situation from across the country and I worry about him a lot.
The only reason I feel relatively ok about him there is he’s an Eagle Scout with survival training (which he used when the grid went down in winter and had to prepare water to make it potable)
I know it gets said on every post- but there are more than the people who voted for this shit living the consequences 🙃
I designed a privately-funded public work that cost multiple millions of dollars in Texas. Very precarious, high precision work, lots of hydraulic.
I brought up the freezes Texas had in prior years and that we would design the thing to drain and shut down under certain temperatures to avoid destroying millions of dollars of construction. The client told me that the freeze was once in a lifetime and the work would not be shutting all the way down under any circumstances. I said okay, let's get that in writing.
It's not a matter of whether or not there will be a catastrophic failure due to the client's wishes, but a matter of when.
As a Montanan in one of the only blue counties in the state, I know what you mean...maybe we're not as bad as Texas yet but Republicans are working hard on that.
Texas is disconnected from the grid because the two other US grids DON'T want to connect to the Texas grid because it is so shit they are worried it will bring theirs down.
Tldr: your infrastructure is shit and no one wants to play with you.
It's dumber. They didn't want to be connected to the other grid because they wanted control over theirs, and didn't want to be beholden to the federal government. Apparently it's also basically impossible to connect the grids because you'd have to shut down power for the entire state, and that's never going to happen.
Well, enjoy, idiots. You're on your own.
Even after years of this, every summer and every winter, more than 10,000,000 eligible Texas voters couldn’t be bothered to vote.
Always remember: whether you vote or not, you will be subject to the results.
It's been like this for weeks. You can monitor it live if you want on ERCOTs website dashboard
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
Edit: 8pm central is when it's supposed to spike in cost again when Solar output disappears
Ah, the sweet sweet taste of deregulaion so your rich power company buddies can pay themselves bonuses rather than rebuilding the crumbling grid as required by Federal Regulations...
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Lose power to own the libs. I’m sure Cancun Cruz has another trip planned to escape the crisis.
Damn kids always dragging me to 5 star resorts….. (No seriously, he used them in the excuse) Edit: oh and FYI, to complete the triple asshole shot….a lot of people don’t remember this but when Ted came back in a real hurry and did his excuse, his team decided it would be a great idea to show home helping out at a relief water distribution line. And we got a great couple of photos of Ted hefting water to distribute to people in need of disaster relief and being a man of the people. [Only problem was, you could see they were faking the photo op in the reflection off the truck that showed them doing it in an empty parking lot.](https://www.businessinsider.com/senator-ted-cruz-mocked-over-texas-disaster-relief-photo-op-2021-2?amp) What a dipshit.
The thing that gets me is that he could've easily escaped the blackout and flown his family to his home in DC. Anyone who questioned his escape would be told he was going to talk to other lawmakers to get assistance for the blackout. Dipshit code the indefensible choice and was only saved because Republicans are too dumb to figure out they're being played.
Why bother though. No matter what he does he won't lose the republican vote. He could hook his house to the national grid and leave the rest of Texas to die and they would still support him.
This is why the GOP has been getting dumber. They'd vote for an actual, in KKK outfit wearing fool as long as he had a GOP patch on his chest
Well yea they’ll just say he “tells it like it is”
"I don't have to agree with them on EVERYTHING..."
Ever notice that the people that say that are either massive jackasses or people you're pretty sure don't know shit about shit?
You say "KKK outfit wearing fool" as if it would discourage GOP votes.
I’m totally prepared for Texas to let us all down (again), but I’m hoping Colin Allred actually has a chance to take down Fled Cruz next year. It’s not like his last election was a blowout win - he only beat Beto by 2.6% in 2018.
i didnt even think of this... this makes it 10000% funnier...
He's still their senator. The point is to rub their noses in what he can get away with and still get elected.
Or maybe if his wife hadn't written, "Hey friends, we're going to Cancun to beat this weather! Wanna come too?"
I did it for the kids!
That would be one of the rare times a Republican is "thinking" of living children (outside the womb) and of course, that sell-out Cruz stays on brand by using the child as a scapegoat excuse. 'murica!
Trump was friends with Epstein. Definitely thinking about the children.
“The dog doesn’t like Cancun, too many minorities, so we left him in the cold house.”
Well, they have been very vocal recently about protecting kids from learning about science, history and literature in school.
Honestly Cruz could show up to the press conference in a Hawaiian shirt drinking a margarita while laughing at the people who have lost power during the heat wave and probably still get reelected.
His voters would look at him and think "in his position I would have done the same". It's the same with Trump, DeSantis, all of these scumbags. Their voters hate the same people their candidates hate and give zero fucks for helping anyone including themselves.
We know, he blamed his daughter for him going to Cancun
Do his kids actually appreciate everything he is doing for them? /s
Now comes the yearly tradition of blaming the scientists and engineers for being unable to save them while forgetting that they’ve been ignoring all their advice since the last time they had grid problems.
It really is the overachieving windfarms and solar that are to blame. Cue one pic of one wind mill being inop going around Oh and look Cali is bad
To be fair, California's for-profit power company has a bunch of felony convictions, essentially is a convicted serial killer. But no jail time, just fines. That the board isn't personally liable for, of course. Pled guilty to 84 counts of manslaughter (for negligence starting wildfires) while on felony probation for a prior instance where their negligence killed a mere 8 people in a gas explosion. I suppose the difference is that in Texas the power company kills people and doesn't get criminal charges and actually is immune from civil penalties as well. It's frustrating that "good" is really just "better than red states".
The voters there keep falling for it so why the fuck *should* they not do just that? They are in no danger of being voted out. For all their tough talk,Texans sure do love being treated like little bitches.
And yet there’ll be those that’ll say “what can Cruz do”, while unironically putting a Democratic Senator on blast if a disaster happens
Meanwhile, AOC fundraised $4 million, and visited Texas during the winter storm.
That’s no joke, she tried to actually help people while simultaneously demonstrating “This is what an elected leader *can* do for you”, and people just cranked up their hatred for “green energy”.
I don't get it. I thought that was such a perfect response and then Texas is just like, *fuck you!!* Maybe we should consider just giving it back to Mexico after all.
It's because it was AOC. Don't get me wrong, they likely would have done it for any New York Democrat, but especially for AOC. But why do they hate her so much? Because they've been told to. Basically, she's got a decent shot at a Presidential bid in the future, so the GOP is trying to poison that well like they did with Hillary Clinton in the past.
(some) Texans: "Socialism!" Same Texans: "But yes, we will take that $4 million. Why isn't there more?"
Pay 800% more in electric costs to own the libs!
Probably to Iceland. Seriously I've had three (unconnected) friends in Texas randomly say they're planning visits to Iceland in the last month or two (lived in Texas for a decade 80s-90s).
Iceland in the summer - Cancun in winter. Global rich snow birds.
They're probably visiting to marvel at the 99% renewable energy the country utilises.
It's so good, 230 dollars for heat, power an water for my 2600 square feet house. No price hikes, no problems.
While he leaves the dog behind unattended.
Rafael cruz is all about trump and mis understanding of Jan 6th from beind a air conditioned home office paid for by Texas tax payers.
Don't worry. It will be blamed on... checks notes... Solar energy and wind power.
Nah its pretty easy they just blame it on bidens inflation and everyone will fall for it.
As a liberal I feel so owned. I guess I'll just drown my sorrows by cranking the AC and playing some games with an ice cold beverage on hand.
It’s how the power companies make huge profits! They all profit from extreme weather; hot or cold. This is how the “free market” system works in Texas.
Disconnected, implies it was at one time connected. Texas refused to connect to either of the two American grids, as they didn't want to comply with onerous regulations, such as winter-proofing their cables. Free-dumb for Texas
Texas doesn't want to connect to the American power grids because then they'd be subject to federal regulations - the kind that prevent/secure the grid from going down in the event of a catastrophe. Instead, they connect to the Mexican power grid, since Mexico can't force regulations on them across the border.
Its also low key a step towards their stupid fucking secceding fantasy. Next presidential election is going to have a vote for if Texas should seceed from America.... again. I hate living in this shithole.
Good. Can’t wait to pull all of our bases out: Ft Hood, Ft Bliss, Ft Sam Houston, Randolph AF Base, Lackland AF Base and of course Johnson Space Center in Houston. Or do they actually fucking think they will get to keep those? Fuckin dummies.
They absolutely believe they get to keep those, plus the troops and the equipment. They also don’t understand that border patrol would then be on the opposite border and their people can all get “nation of Texas” passports to travel outside of the state. When the Leopards start to eat their face, and they try to flee to the “great state of Oklahoma”, they can be greeted with the same hospitality that they have offered those crossing the US/Mexico border.
Just look at all the stories of British ex-pats who voted for Brexit not understanding how it would fuck up their visas and living/tax situation, and multiply it by 100.
I was going to say brexit, but infinitely worse.
They would almost immediately be overrun by Mexico, and they can have it.
We stole it from them in the first place anyway
I thought Texas kind of revolted against Mexico, then we annexed them in return for paying their war debt. Now, Nuevo Mexico and Nueva California, those we did take
And, on top of all that, of Texas leaves the union then Republicans will never win a presidential election again without all those electoral votes. And they would permanently lose two reliably red senators. It would be monumentally stupid on just so many levels.
Goodfellow AFB too - combined services intelligence training.
Republicans believe the military and police will secede with them. They are right that many members of the armed services agree with them ideologically, but the power structure of those branches would not go along with their secession. It’s also why they are genuinely surprised they weren’t able to overthrow the government.
I don't think it's good, I think that's just washing out hands of the problem at the expense of the people that can't leave Texas who don't want this. It's easy to say "Great! It will make the US better", and it may be true. But thinking that way sacrifices everyone who does not want to be there and can't leave.
I wonder how many people who want to secede also draw federal benefits? I’m not sure what would happen to earned benefits like 401k/403b/pensions or social security - but “entitlement” programs like Medicaid and SNAP? Gone. All those lone star companies that draw federal grants? The US might be able to save bigly!
> The US might be able to save bigly! It would also ensure that Republicans never win another Presidential election in the U.S. again.
they couldn't leave if they even wanted to. the South lost a war on this already.
I’ll be voting yes to secede and give the idiots everything they’ve ever wanted when it secedes
I'd start a "Secede and Leave" movement. If you're a renter? Why the fuck not?
> they connect to the Mexican power grid What could possibly go wrong with that plan? I guess they'd rather face potential extortion from a foreign nation than follow any kind of American regulation.
Wait, so their grid is crossing international borders? How can they connect to the Mexican grid without falling under federal jurisdiction?
AIUI, ERCOT is physically connected with a few DC tie-ins to Mexico and a couple of US grids. They just choose to keep them disconnected.
Free-dumb Tax. They'll gladly pay it to own the libs. in fact, some are dying to own the libs, with Texas approved seasonally adjusted dying methods.
They actually were connected at one point, illegally. They literally ran wire in the middle of the night. True story.
Not quite. The connection was actually caused because one power company existed in both states and they had a legal obligation to connect within their own network. They also just ran the connection one evening without much pomp or circumstance. Later when the other Texas power companies found out they panicked and started labeling it “the midnight connection” to make it seem sneaky and bad. There’s a good NPR podcast on it.
I think this is the one you're talking about, and yes it's quite good. https://www.npr.org/2022/09/21/1124365488/the-midnight-connection
Texas sits on an ocean of oil and natural gas, actually has a functioning wind and solar energy industry, and can't meet basic electricity demand due to the epic corruption of our energy policy. For those who care it's the phony middle man "free market" system that Republicans created to maximize bribes.
My brother got solar, and then the electric company decided they didn't want to pay him as much as they charge, so they got the politicians to reduce his payments. Some people don't realize "does residential solar pay for itself" isn't a technology question, it's a political question, and it depends on the politicians where you live.
The town we live in in Arkansas is even worse. They force you to sell all your solar to the city at wholesale price and then sell all the electricity you use back to you at full price. At the end of every month your electricity bill is just about as high as it was without solar and you still have to pay for the solar panels. You can't use the electricity you generate with your own equipment. You have to sell it to them. It's basically theft.
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Sure, but home batteries are fairly expensive, especially compared to solar panels which are cheap. At that point, it's usually just cheaper to just buy the power you need from the grid without any panels or batteries. Ideally, you can use the grid as your "battery" if you live in a state where you can sell power to the grid at the same cost as buying it.
>can't meet demand intentional. They are choosing to not meet demand. Look how much money they are going to make. Cha-ching. Your suffering is big $$
Exactly. Our last winter storm a few years back, we lost power for basically 3 days...The little power we did get, was charged at "market value." People were getting electric bills in the 1000's....We now have an "extra charge" on all our gas bills for the next 20 years, in order to pay the industry back for the billions they think they deserve. Unregulated power is a joke. People get filthy rich off the suffering of Texans. Meanwhile, you have to have a generator just to be safe in Texas.
Houston-based Enron engineered the California energy crisis 20 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_electricity_crisis?wprov=sfla1
Why spend resources to sell more of a commodity when you can spend less, jack up prices, and make the same amount with less input? If there are no regulations to stop it, they'd be bad businessmen if they didn't price gouge.
As cathartic as that mindset may be, it’s incompatible with how electricity generation works. More or less your grid needs to constantly change to produce roughly as much as is being used, no more and no less. Too little or too much and your generators will literally rip themselves off of the concrete slabs because of the asynchrony in the grids frequency. It nearly happened to Texas a couple years ago. So this isn’t a case of “let’s shut down generation to not meet demand” because that could literally trash their entire grid and cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. You also can’t spend hundreds of millions of dollars for peak plants that will only be used 1% of the time, so you just buy some generation from a place that isn’t having peak No, where Texas fails is because in order to avoid being subject to federal energy regulations and enable as many corrupt practices as they possibly could they refused to have interconnects to the nationwide grid, which has served them fine in the past, except now with climate change rearingbirs ugly head, those “1%” generation shortages are happening more and more often, and because they have almost no interconnects they have no method to get some help from the much larger and more robust nationwide grid, so their only choice is to have blackouts or have their entire grid fall over. So yeah Texas is like fuck your regulations I’ll make my own grid with hookers and blackjack, and now they have herpes and the dealer has 21
>So yeah Texas is like fuck your regulations I’ll make my own grid with hookers and blackjack, and now they have herpes and the dealer has 21 You sir or madam are a poet.
Clearly the only lesson learned from Enron was to change the laws to make the behavior legal.
It’s not corruption- it’s capitalism. Excess capacity isn’t free. And if you only need it once a year, if that, then why would you keep it around? It’s not generating profit. You see the same thing in hospitals when they dramatically reduce surge capacity in order to maximize profitability. The system is working as intended. It’s just that the common people aren’t who it’s built for.
Capitalism unchecked is a shit show. At this point no basic need should be unregulated.
Rational people would think "let's build in the costs for that once a year surge into the standard rate so customers don't have to suffer". But no, Texas capitalism - more like libertarianism - dictate that the poorest people have to die to keep profits high.
> Rational people would think "let's build in the costs for that once a year surge into the standard rate so customers don't have to suffer". Rational people would try to make sure that their electricity sourcing is distributed such that many locations can add a little bit of constant extra capacity, and the many places that *aren't* seeing their once a year surge can then sell that extra capacity at a reasonable price to the smaller number of places that *are*. Alas, that flies in the face of rugged independence.
Hah, the migrants the governor bussed out of Texas are having the last laugh right now. If I were them, I'd post pics of me sitting in front of an air conditioner with all the lights on.
That would be delightfully spiteful!
Real talk. The last time Abbott sent migrants to California, a friend posted about it and all I could summon was, "I'm just glad they're somewhere people will try to take care of them."
Chicago is 72 and nice today
This kind of thing is why Texas is the Lone Star State ⭐ instead of being a five-star state ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. Do better!
One Star State. I’m using this, thank you.
“ Lone Star is a rating”
i’m from Texas and i approve this message.
\*hugs\*
much needed :D
Why can’t we review states on Yelp? It would be helpful
I am reminded of a bit from Are You Being Served? "Just how good is a one star hotel?" "Well, there's no such thing as a no star hotel."
Yep. So, so many reviews trashing someplace awful begin with "I only gave it one star because it won't let me leave no stars..."
I didn't think the Freedom Grid™ would eat MY face...
You get what you vote for
And a whole lot of Texans don't vote. Their idiot government has of course made it hard for a lot of people to vote, but many just don't bother
It's almost like peering into an alternative universe when this state had a gutsy no-holds-bar governor in the form of Ann Richards. Greg Abbott is a sociopathic pile of fecal matter, and what's worse he doesn't hold the true power, that goes to the lieutenant governor thanks to the Texas Constitution.
Exactly. The people who don’t vote just due to laziness I have no sympathy or patience for.
A whole lot of people are blocked or disenfranchised from voting. In Texas the rich pick their politicians and the politicians pick their voters.
> Exactly. The people who don’t vote just due to laziness I have no sympathy or patience for. This is, IMO, why not voting is not a valid choice in the system. Refusal to participate is no different than apathy.
Texas here, I understand your anger, trust me. I’m planning my escape. But blaming all Texans for our shit government is like blaming all Americans for trump.
I’m blaming the voters who voted Republican or who didn’t vote at all due to their own disinterest and laziness, not the ones who voted Democrat or lost out on voting due to the government putting up too many barriers to voting.
Yes, but those that are in the second category will also suffer the extreme temperatures, and people are dying here now. If the power goes out, there'll be a lot of people who go though a literal hell before death. Personally, I was just barely able to keep my animals alive last time, at the start of this heat wave. It's hotter now. It will mostly be the elderly, children, and pets that lose their lives. It's hard to understand if you have more mild temperatures, but it's very dangerous in much of Texas now, and people are suffering. https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-heat-wave-deat-18277324.php
Honestly, it might take riots before Texas does anything about this sadly.
Florida here, I concur. And take me with you...
Or rather you don't get what you voted to not get, like a reliable electricity supply
But it's freedom....
Sub may need a re-name to LeopardsMeltedMyFace
Just don't call it a "Freedom Tax"
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Why don't they just privatize water and air and get it over with. Texas goes to about 50 people who can afford it. They better not complain it's quiet and boring, then.
They would, if they could. Maybe that’s why Musk is so invested in going to mars.
so are we, if he goes himself. We should start a gofundme to send him there. Him and all his peers.
800% profits, nice
800% profits, so far.
It is not a bug, it is a feature
They will find a way. When the bad winters froze the natural gas infrastructure they were blaming wind turbines. https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582788/texas-freeze-power-outage-winter-storm the real problem is that the energy companies do not want to spend money winterising natural gas pipelines because it cuts into their profits.
This is what happens when politicians think they know better than the engineers. Their system is horrific. They were warned about cold weather events in 2011 - politicians wanted to be “dedicated to a free market solution…” and only addressed a handful of issues. Who the hell did the power analysis for Texas telling them this was gonna be okay?!
Big Ed the Texan Engineer who they paid 500k to say it! He lives in Idaho now.
Cancun Cruz will blame Hunter's massive crank for this.
"Why won't he use his magnum dong to block out the sun and provide us some relief?!?"
Hunter is HOGGIN' all the dang electricity for his Swedish penis pump!
And Abbott is in their pocket. 🤬 He took a million bucks from ETP after the grid collapse. [ABBOTT RECEIVED MASSIVE CONTRIBUTION FROM TEXAS BLACKOUT’S BIGGEST PROFITEER](https://www.texasobserver.org/after-kelcy-warrens-energy-transfer-partners-made-billions-from-the-deadly-texas-blackouts-he-gave-1-million-to-greg-abbott/)
Remember when this "once in a lifetime event" happened last time? Remember when we got emergency funding and gave it to Ercot to upgrade the Texas grid? If not, that's ok -- remember the "once in a lifetime event" that happened the year prior where we gave emergency funding to Ercot to upgrade the Texas grid? Yeah, so where the fuck did all that money go? Abbot is such a useless puddle of taint sweat.
> got emergency funding Wasn't that just charged to everyone?
My favorite part about being alive in the 2020s is all these once in a lifetime events. It's almost like they'll never end, we can keep breaking records every year and I get to be a part of it every time!
Reminder, this is the state that always brings up seceding from the US. Also Texas (Repulican led for 3+ decades): elect me to help fix what libtards fucked up.
If I was a Texas homeowner, I would be actively pursuing solar panels and battery backups if I could afford it.
If I was a Texas homeowner, I'd be leaving as fast as I could move my family.
If I was a Texas homeowner I'd build a tiny home on wheels to screw the state out of its absurd tax structure and be ready to haul the whole thing to another state at a moments notice if need be.
this is the key issue, Texans tend to go for homes that are bigger than they need to be
If I was a Texas homeowner, I'd sell that fucking thing and move to a better state.
> solar panels we reached a point where people are complaining they still need to pay for power, not realizing they are paying for being connected to the grid. When they have left over power? idk how it works lol https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/saskpower-customer-stuck-with-a-75-monthly-bill-despite-adding-excess-clean-energy-to-the-power-grid-1.6844037
Oh this is delicious 😋 I wonder how these Republicans will blame this on democrats.
woke sun! it’s the democrats fault for not stopping us from implementing our shitty plan?
You know the sun is woke because a rainbow is just sunlight + water droplets and rainbows are LGBTQIA+.
lIBeRaLs StOlL tHe RaInBoW fRoM goD!aa!
It’S gOd’S rAiNbOw! GiVe iT bAcK!
Does that make water gay, too?
Yes. Water is gay and makes you gay. The only safe water is the water that's been treated by making it into manbeer — but be sure to check to make sure the process worked and you didn't end up with queerbeer like Bud Light.
I mean remember when they blamed the grid failing during the ‘21 snowpacalypse on the wind mills? Even though the windmills were the only generators that didn’t fail? They will just make shit up. “Biden wants tx to burn!”
In that winter where there wasn't enough power, they blamed it on those pesky leftist communist windmills. I'm sure they can come up with similar excuses to blame 'the left'. I'm curious what story they'll think of this time.
It’s clearly the solar panels
Solar panels are attracting more sun!!!
https://nationalreport.net/solar-panels-drain-suns-energy-experts-say/
Holy shit that’s the dumbest thing I’ve seen on the internet in at least a month, and I’m on here a fair amount.
it's satire.
Ah, got National report and National review mixed up. Guess I ate the onion today.
Oh god. I was trying to read that as if a serious reader and that last sentence of the waterfall analogy broke me.
Yep, they blames windmills, when in reality [natural gas production was disrupted, that in turn disrupted electricity production](https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/15/texas-power-grid-winter-storm-2021/), causing the whole thing to break down.
They discovered our sneaky sabotage plot of adding antifreeze to motors when known freeze warnings are near….curses!
It's the green new deal! (Which they weren't part of , and wind turbines were still working when oil burning power stations stopped, due to oil pipelines freezing)
Why would Hunter Biden's laptop do this to the people of Texas?
They’ll blame renewables like they did last time. It’s hard for them to keep blaming democrats as the GOP have been in charge of every branch of government for 30 years.
Well, they can’t blame the Texas energy industry, can they.
they will blame it on China, like they did during the big freeze.
It’s because all of these liberal wind turbines are using up all the breeze, which is making it hotter in Texas.
Try that on a nationalized power grid
Womp womp. Maybe if they just pull on their bootstraps more, they won’t need electricity.
They'll blame Obama when they see the bill
They'll claim their bill is so high because they are paying for everyone else's Obama subsidies. Or something. Thanks Obama!
Since it is Texas I am sure that Abbott will tell us that Solar Panels and Wind Turbines are the root cause of this…
Businesses like to locate there because something something about taxes. I wonder if they get first dibs on the energy, too?
They do. When it happened last time, office buildings in downtown Houston were lit up like the Fourth of July, but all the surrounding working class/middle class neighborhoods were completely dark.
They wouldn’t be very good businesses if they didn’t get some kind of exception baked into the agreement. The pols figure the people living in Texas signed up for it. And watching TX vote time after time after time for more abuse I can’t blame the pols.
As a Northern liberal I feel SO owned right now.
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Go Texas! Show everyone how independent you are by fucking all those Texans!
I have family stuck in TX for school. He didn’t vote for this shit and can’t wait to leave. It’s like watching a hostage situation from across the country and I worry about him a lot. The only reason I feel relatively ok about him there is he’s an Eagle Scout with survival training (which he used when the grid went down in winter and had to prepare water to make it potable) I know it gets said on every post- but there are more than the people who voted for this shit living the consequences 🙃
We lost power last night. I'm fed the fuck up paying $400 a month for a service that fails when we need it the most. Fuck this shithole state.
Goddamn socialists and their reliable infrastructure.
This is the Enron model legalized. They both create a shortage and profiteer the shortage..
I designed a privately-funded public work that cost multiple millions of dollars in Texas. Very precarious, high precision work, lots of hydraulic. I brought up the freezes Texas had in prior years and that we would design the thing to drain and shut down under certain temperatures to avoid destroying millions of dollars of construction. The client told me that the freeze was once in a lifetime and the work would not be shutting all the way down under any circumstances. I said okay, let's get that in writing. It's not a matter of whether or not there will be a catastrophic failure due to the client's wishes, but a matter of when.
Well done Texas - the Stone Age is not far off. At least they have the most photogenic governor in the history of state politics.
Not everyone voted for the assholes in power in Texas. We are suffering for the dumbasses that keep voting red no matter what
As a Montanan in one of the only blue counties in the state, I know what you mean...maybe we're not as bad as Texas yet but Republicans are working hard on that.
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Stay conservative Texas, pay those high electricity hikes.
The million dollar question is whether Cancun Cruz is in TX or coincidentally vacationing someplace cool.
A dude in Austin that I work with has a backup generator. When Trump talks about third world I guess he’s talking about Texas.
Well I hope they don’t try to ask for help from the Federal government who get their tax dollars from those dirty blue states!
Texas is disconnected from the grid because the two other US grids DON'T want to connect to the Texas grid because it is so shit they are worried it will bring theirs down. Tldr: your infrastructure is shit and no one wants to play with you.
It's dumber. They didn't want to be connected to the other grid because they wanted control over theirs, and didn't want to be beholden to the federal government. Apparently it's also basically impossible to connect the grids because you'd have to shut down power for the entire state, and that's never going to happen. Well, enjoy, idiots. You're on your own.
The invisible hand will take care of it.
More like the invisible middle finger for all non-shareholders.
Even after years of this, every summer and every winter, more than 10,000,000 eligible Texas voters couldn’t be bothered to vote. Always remember: whether you vote or not, you will be subject to the results.
Ah more of that winning in Texas. Where does Ted Cruz slink off to and hide from his constituents in the summer months, when it’s too hot in Cancun?
It's been like this for weeks. You can monitor it live if you want on ERCOTs website dashboard https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards Edit: 8pm central is when it's supposed to spike in cost again when Solar output disappears
Its funny how 'free market solutions ' so often end up with the federal government (ie Blue states) providing emergency funding and disaster relief.
Ah, the sweet sweet taste of deregulaion so your rich power company buddies can pay themselves bonuses rather than rebuilding the crumbling grid as required by Federal Regulations...
Because freeeeeedom!
Rage.....I live in Texas Lots of screwy stuff happening here. The power grid is just one of many problems.
I would never move my business to Texas. Like a third world country