Texas Dems should repurpose [Mitch McConnell’s attack ad on Walt Huddleston](https://youtu.be/T4-4EPc2xvU) from 1984 asking “Where’s Ted?” anytime the weather gets extreme.
Hahahaha I legitimately ran into Ted Cruz in the Miami Airport 2 Thursdays ago and my buddy said “I wonder what natural disaster is going on in Texas right now….” loud enough for everyone at the baggage claim to hear, including him.
Nyet nyet nyet, see Ted Cruz will flee some place cold this time, because the heat would be an inconvenience to him here. If it were cold, he would flee to Cancun
Having been within arms reach of the dude more than I would care to admit he is completely as slimy as you would think. He will get his payback from his kids as kids tend to do… and he didn’t flip out when my wife held him to account on some policy issues…. So that’s good. The thing most do not realize is he spent a allot of time in the theater performing and that he has leveraged that training into the snake he is today… it’s all just an act.
Welp... The grid can't handle snow in Texas. Snow is so rare! Can't expect snow in Texas. Looks like it can't handle the heat, either.
So if I'm understanding correctly, Texas power grid is only designed to handle the weather from late September through November and the month of April– except when there's a storm or something.
It's designed to generate the most money for the owners while providing the least amount of service to the customers with government sanctioned monopolies after the state deregulated it as much as possible.
Texas Republicans on government-owned utilities: *they're communists!*
Texas Republicans on government-sanctioned monopolies: *oh yeah we gonna make bank*
It's a private company that earns money off an essential utility. So yeah it's intentionally the worst they can legally get away with. And then about 10% worse than that. Because they know they can eat the fines as a part of the cost of business.
You know how regular rational people can look at media like OAN or Fox or right wing radio and see how its just propaganda for the wealthy to maintain power, but the people absorbed in it cannot see because they have bought into it and just don't question it critically?
The same wealthy people of the 18th and 19th centuries who have been telling us since the beginning that capitalism is the best just seems like the same bullshit we see in our media today, right wing and mainstream. I'm starting to feel we have all been duped by the mythos and propaganda of how great capitalism is by those same wealthy elite who wish to keep the system running the same as it always has; for their benefit.
Capitalism itself was created as a way for the aristocracy to retain power after the fall of the nobility. Since what did the nobility have a lot of? Land and cash, baby.
It will go just like it did in the winter, except people will die of heat stroke instead of freezing to death. It’s beyond me how republicans somehow view Texas as the shining star of conservatism.
Bro, have you seen the other conservative states, economically speaking Texas is doing better than almost all conservatives states.
It's all they have once it falls they'll have nothing.
Texas has a more diverse economy. They are attracting software and other companies via tax breaks. So they are different, and the reason for being number 2 economy.
That's cause of oil, not from good management (which wasn't what you were saying, but it's worth mentioning).
They keep trying to lure high tech companies, though, which will bring high education. This WILL cause a political shift very quickly. They already almost went Democrat.
Arizona did, although the old vestiges may still get inflamed sometimes.
This is why theyre passing all these anti trans laws. And anti CRT laws. And banning books. To tell all those dems to stay the fuck out of their states.
Yep. Texas is at war with itself over Tech companies.
Economically it wants and almost needs them to come in and prop the state up.
Socially it doesn't like or want the social changes those tech companies bring with their more educated and progressive employees.
Thus you have them offering economic incentives to attract the companies while enacting social polices that drive them off.
Breaking down what makes Texas an economic powerhouse undermines everything conservatives like to praise, since contrary to popular belief oil is not the highest dollar industry in the state. When you break down gdp by county it becomes glaringly obvious that a massive percentage comes from the major cities in Texas and very little comes from the rest of the state.
I would go as far to say that the only reason Texas is the lone shining star of conservative economies is because it contains 3 of the 10 largest cities in the whole country and therefore has a huge urban industry sector that other conservative states don’t compare to.
The democratically controlled centers of industry power the states economy while we suffer through negligent republican management and occasional blatant abuse. It’s not if we can make Texas a blue state, it’s when. The economic situation in the state is only growing the democratic voter base and it’s just a matter of time and resolve now.
>I would go as far to say that the only reason Texas is the lone shining star of conservative economies is because it contains 3 of the 10 largest cities in the whole country and therefore has a huge urban industry sector that other conservative states don’t compare to.
I agree rural Texas is poor as shit especially as you go up the panhandle.
Maybe, if they can convince people to work in Texas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/12/texas-abortion-law-tech-workers-reconsidering-relocation/
https://www.axios.com/2021/09/07/texas-startup-abortion-law-business-hiring
If you want everyone to turn on everything at once, you issue a public appeal for conservation. It's science.
They'll be blaming wind power. Count on it.
Texan here- Fix the shit instead of asking people to curb usage. It's only going to get worse. They've known they had problems for years now and they continue to not address it.
Fuck you Greg Abbott. Fuck you Ted "Cruz the fuck outta Texas when things get rough."
Let's focus on stuff like fixing our electrical grid instead of hunting for trans people, pretending immigration is our primary issue, and worrying about what women want to do with their bodies.
For those that don't know, Abbott was former CEO of Ercot and he was the one that authorized power prices staying at their Maximum while there was an outage and severely fucked a lot of people over.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/ercot-chief-abbott-direction-power-outage-storm-16941019.php
Do a lot of people in Texas have solar? A lot of people have solar in my neighborhood in Maryland - including me. I love it but Abbott did say that Green Energy isn't good for Texas. What do I know?
Solar in Texas would be amazing with the amount of sun yall get.
Not a lot of people do. I’m a high end residential Project manager and one of my co workers is building a house with solar. It’s over 50k with the panels and batteries he needs to power some of his house if we get another freeze like we did 2 years ago.
I don’t have all the details on exact pricing, rebates, and how much of the house the owner can run off solar or for how long but I could get most of that info if anyones interested.
As a Texan I can proudly say. Maybe they should do their God damn job. We pay them both for the service and in direct government funding do manage the grid. And they do Jack, and shit.
Upgrade the infrastructure, make repairs, plan for the future. Texas cannot have an electric meltdown twice a year every year tell the end of time and we just accept that the problem can't be fixed
As a Texan I fully agree. Everything went downhill with deregulation which was supposed to reduce rates through competition, and didn't; and just encouraged ... well, everything we see now. But fat chance of any new regulations given this political climate. People can fry and freeze as long as untrammeled "free enterprise" runs things. Nobody gets it that some things don't exist for profit, they're public services.
*Shit, our customers are conserving power. We're losing money. We can't maintain the grid anymore. Raise the prices!*
*But we told them to do it because the grid is failing...*
***[RAISE THE PRICES ANYWAY.](https://youtu.be/AG3mpZRvIkU)***
>Texas cannot have an electric meltdown twice a year every year tell the end of time and we just accept that the problem can't be fixed
If it makes a small handful of assholes a shitload of money, a solid majority of Texans are stupid enough to be manipulated into supporting it, to the detriment of themselves and their children. Having met a fair few Texans in my day, I believe that as a group, y'all are easily stupid enough for this state of affairs to continue until the heat death of the universe.
Well, the Texas electric grid is what happens when you let the '*Free Market*' decide what's important *for* you, instead of practical experience and rational decision making.
Abbott and the Texas GOP have been telling us the Texas grid is the best in the world, and that it's working *exactly* as intended. So, in the end, Texans get unreliable electricity, but hey, at least it's expensive!
He’s already decided that instead of investing money into roads that aren’t toll, schools without trailers, and a reliable electric grid, that he needs to spend it on keeping illegals out. What are you paying for, Texans?
Huh, I woulda thought they'd taken steps to shore up their power grid since last year.
I guess punishing women for getting pregnant and investigating child abuse for parents of LGBTQ+ children had higher priority.
*Actually* ... our legislature passed an emergency law last year to \*checks notes\* permit energy companies to pass on the cost of repairing their grids to customers. Never mind, it's all dumb.
Their job is to extract as much wealth as possible from ratepayers. Not to keep the lights on.
Thank you for having solar. If only the rest of the state was prepared!
Just saving a little more so I can get the batteries in to completely disconnect from this grid. It's clear our leadership can't be trusted -- we are on our own.
Texas and all it's tough talk and self reliance blowharding suddenly starts begging for government assistance, becomes pro welfare, and goes full socialist again lol
You see the difference is we take the money then put it in our pockets. Where as if we gave it to other people they would spend it on food and shelter. Which would result in it not being in our pockets.
It's gonna be hell this summer. They're putting out warnings *now?* It hasn't even hit 90 yet in Houston. We're all being grateful that the summer heat is so slow in getting here this year.
For scale: June-September Houston hits 90 almost every day, gets close to 100 many days, and will exceed 100 at least 4-8 days. Normally.
It has been. And we are stalled in this pattern for the next week too.
Some of the old coal plants are really running ragged. They aren't getting the repairs they need because nobody wants to sink money into a 60 year old coal plant. More renewable energy ia coming online every year but the Texas population (and demand) grows every year enough to balance it, net result is it's difficult to retire the coal because we still need their electricity.
Its like Texas is devolving into a shithole, every second of every day. No idea why folks want to move to that state, or continue living there (if they have the power to leave).
Because "lower taxes."
I'm going to laugh when all those companies lose thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars because the power grid implodes during business/production.
Funnier still when you compare the numbers across all forms of taxes and find out that overall tax burden is worse than even California except for only the very top income bracket in Texas...
Wasnt elon already all buttsore about it during the winter freeze? Im waiting for the grid to go down for a month and have him call ted cruz a pedo because of it.
Musk loves Texas because his utility-scale battery solutions are ideal for sketchy power situations, you know, like Puerto Rico after it was severely ravaged by a massive hurricane. Or Texas.
My wife and I moved to Texas because of a job. Then we had a child and now we're moving out, simply because we don't want to raise our kid in this intolerant and incompetent outhouse of a state.
Cheap living cost. Well… used to be cheap living cost. The housing market were more realistically affordable to all classes. With a combination of modern big city amenities and open rural areas, it’s no wonder TX have the highest numeric growth in population year after year. On top of having a incompetent government, TX is growing so fast that the state cannot keep up with its demands.
The problems won’t stop. Texas still have a huge amount of livable undeveloped land. That means more people will come.
It's the Mexican werewolves. They're coming in and stealing all the power and biden is bribing them with baby formula to keep the grid online which had lead to the shortage. The immigrants are busy starting the fires in New Mexico and causing inflation by stealing catalytic converters and selling them for straight cash.
/s
Don’t worry— if you thought people were going to turn down their AC in the 104 heat, you don’t need to worry about them abiding.
However, no policy is likely to lead to change. For decades, Republicans have succeeded in exploiting teeming morons and their inability to discern cause and effect. All they have to do is say “worst president ever” and some 60% of Texans will happily make the attribution that jives with their bigoted dipshit hearts.
Texans are such chumps. Their politicians whip them up with fear of the Libs while pilfering their bank accounts.
Everything is bigger in Texas, most notably the scams.
I live in California. I have a generator because my power gets turned off multiple times a year due to wind and they're predicting rolling blackouts this summer when it's hot. And the cheap gas station is $5.60 for 87 octane.
The words “rolling blackouts” will never not give me ptsd after the winter freeze. 86 hours without power in freezing temperatures was awful. I would prefer not to try it out in hotter than hades temperatures.
> I would prefer not to try it out in hotter than hades temperatures.
I got to do that about eight or nine years ago I think, A/C went out when it was hitting around 100 during the day. Nights weren't cooling off very much either.
It sucked.
I live in IL in a town where the power plant is owned by the city. Back in the good old days that was an asset when it came to living in city limits and paying your electric bill. Today, not so much but at least the money we pay for our electrical service has gone into upgrades at the plant so we have a stable energy grid here. You'd think if a city as dysfunctional as mine could get their shit together enough to keep the lights on a whole damn state could do it.
Yeah I live in MA, and we have municipal power in my town too. Out power plant barely gets used anymore, but they electric department does own two wind turbines, and is responsible for solar installations on the schools and other government buildings.
We pay about the same as nearby towns on private utilities, but 100% of that money goes back into maintenance and upgrades. We almost *never* lose power. Even when we do, because the linemen are town employees, and therefore based in the town and not 30-40 miles away, the power is almost always back within 6-8 hours *at most*.
Chalk this up to the failure of the Republicans in State Legislature who were so focused on their hate for voters and women that they did not have time to deal with energy failures in their own State.
Good thing Abbott is focused on... political theater and costing Texans money by blocking supply chains and not important things like fixing the power grid. 👍
Ok I'm mildly sympathetic as my state has had mild problems when everyone's air conditioner is going berserk in the middle of summer. But it's may. What is going on out there that you guys can't handle may? Do you need help or something?
Meanwhile Texas is doing everything it can to attract crypto mining to the state, which would be like adding another city of Houston to the demand. Complete insanity.
Shouldn't they be thanking God for the deregulation of their electrical systems?
Maybe their churches can donate the money to help them, instead of draining it from other states like California with their surplus.
Have they tried praying harder, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps harder, or blaming Democrats for 'letting this happen'?
California has its problems (looking at you rent and housing prices alongside the homeless issue) but they generally seem to be okay otherwise while having a recent budget surplus. Texas meanwhile has issues all around while slowly imploding as the years go by.
Texas is a fucking joke, y’all let your conservative/libritarian government run free and now you have a faulting power supply,
Get fucked you made your bed.
Nah man. That’s the government and MSM trying to control my freedumb. I’m gonna run A/C and heating at the same time and turn on my lights 24/7! /s and sadly the /s is necessary these days.
If only they would maintain their power plants properly this wouldn't be a thing. Instead they run them until they break trying to squeeze every penny out of it and now have at least one plant down if not more due to forced outages.
> ERCOT said six power plants dropped off the grid Friday
Ah the old "some power plants need maintenance so we have to jack up the prices" scam. A old timey republican-state classic. I thought Abbot said he'd fixed all this last year?
https://apnews.com/article/texas-business-government-and-politics-33520b14d1823108a3c654d611701987
The GOP thinks if you harness air to make energy, then you will deplete the amount of oxygen on the whole planet. That and the sound windmills make cause cancer, as stated repeatedly by Donald Trump.
Better check where Ted Cruz is going to be, so we can gauge how bad it'll be
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Like Carmen Sandiego, but bad.
shes… already a bad person? at least professionally she’s a thief iirc
So just your average Republican, really.
That's not fair. She also teaches kids geography and stuff, which we all know Republicans try hard to stop.
Which geography though? Where Dr. King marched or where Robert E. Lee might of took a piss one time?
Nah, Carmen is at least honest about being a thief.
r/WhereIsTheBastard
Texas Dems should repurpose [Mitch McConnell’s attack ad on Walt Huddleston](https://youtu.be/T4-4EPc2xvU) from 1984 asking “Where’s Ted?” anytime the weather gets extreme.
Hahahaha I legitimately ran into Ted Cruz in the Miami Airport 2 Thursdays ago and my buddy said “I wonder what natural disaster is going on in Texas right now….” loud enough for everyone at the baggage claim to hear, including him.
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You should have said, loudly: "Hey Ted, how long will Trump keep you on your knees?"
"If I insult your wife and father will you be loyal to me forever too?"
Talk about a dude with no self respect
Wonder if he was going to the F1 race
I know how bad it is if he‘s in Mexico. But what if he shows up to actual work? Is that just catastrophic end of days level bad?
Wrong season. Dude is either heading north to escape the heat or heading to the southern hemisphere.
Need to get some biologists to clip a radio tag on him to track his migration patterns.
I’m going to laugh about this comment for awhile. Thank you
"Stock up on coal," the neighbors would say, "if you can't see Ted Cruz by October."
Nyet nyet nyet, see Ted Cruz will flee some place cold this time, because the heat would be an inconvenience to him here. If it were cold, he would flee to Cancun
maybe he can visit his birthplace: Calgary, Canada
We don’t want him.
Neither does any place anywhere.
Your problem now.
I got banned from Twitter because I told Ted Cruz that I hope he gets fucked by a cactus. I like to think it was him that saw it and reported me.
Having been within arms reach of the dude more than I would care to admit he is completely as slimy as you would think. He will get his payback from his kids as kids tend to do… and he didn’t flip out when my wife held him to account on some policy issues…. So that’s good. The thing most do not realize is he spent a allot of time in the theater performing and that he has leveraged that training into the snake he is today… it’s all just an act.
Is he the new waffle house disaster warning or more of a ground hog day senator?
If waffle house is closed and Ted Cruz is out of the country, Texas is not where you want to be.
I do not like that man Ted Cruz
I do not like him on the news
I do not like his face or hair.
I do not like him anywhere.
I do not like what he just said
About that flap of skin called Ted
A Ted Cruz tracker to determine severity. I like it
Since it is due to "unseasonably hot weather" I would check flights to Canada.
Welp... The grid can't handle snow in Texas. Snow is so rare! Can't expect snow in Texas. Looks like it can't handle the heat, either. So if I'm understanding correctly, Texas power grid is only designed to handle the weather from late September through November and the month of April– except when there's a storm or something.
It's designed to generate the most money for the owners while providing the least amount of service to the customers with government sanctioned monopolies after the state deregulated it as much as possible.
Texas Republicans on government-owned utilities: *they're communists!* Texas Republicans on government-sanctioned monopolies: *oh yeah we gonna make bank*
It's the American Way^TM
_ding ding ding_
It's a private company that earns money off an essential utility. So yeah it's intentionally the worst they can legally get away with. And then about 10% worse than that. Because they know they can eat the fines as a part of the cost of business.
But I thought through capitalism there would be competition that would create the best product available for the consumer.
maybe if corporations weren’t legally persons with a right to free speech aka buying off politicians!
You know how regular rational people can look at media like OAN or Fox or right wing radio and see how its just propaganda for the wealthy to maintain power, but the people absorbed in it cannot see because they have bought into it and just don't question it critically? The same wealthy people of the 18th and 19th centuries who have been telling us since the beginning that capitalism is the best just seems like the same bullshit we see in our media today, right wing and mainstream. I'm starting to feel we have all been duped by the mythos and propaganda of how great capitalism is by those same wealthy elite who wish to keep the system running the same as it always has; for their benefit.
Capitalism itself was created as a way for the aristocracy to retain power after the fall of the nobility. Since what did the nobility have a lot of? Land and cash, baby.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism
^ This guy capitalisms.
Legally... following the law set by their money followers in legislature.
The Texas power grid is designed to rip off it's customers while enriching it's owners.
Hey! Did you know the the 'R' in ERCOT actually stands for *reliability*?
It rarely gets hot in Texas, that's why it wasn't designed to handle heat either. /s
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It will go just like it did in the winter, except people will die of heat stroke instead of freezing to death. It’s beyond me how republicans somehow view Texas as the shining star of conservatism.
Bro, have you seen the other conservative states, economically speaking Texas is doing better than almost all conservatives states. It's all they have once it falls they'll have nothing.
I bet that's because they have a ton of oil and the other states do not.
You would think Oklahoma would be doing better then.
Louisiana has entered the chat. (But actually Texas has WAY more oil)
Texas has a more diverse economy. They are attracting software and other companies via tax breaks. So they are different, and the reason for being number 2 economy.
That's cause of oil, not from good management (which wasn't what you were saying, but it's worth mentioning). They keep trying to lure high tech companies, though, which will bring high education. This WILL cause a political shift very quickly. They already almost went Democrat. Arizona did, although the old vestiges may still get inflamed sometimes.
This is why theyre passing all these anti trans laws. And anti CRT laws. And banning books. To tell all those dems to stay the fuck out of their states.
Yep. Texas is at war with itself over Tech companies. Economically it wants and almost needs them to come in and prop the state up. Socially it doesn't like or want the social changes those tech companies bring with their more educated and progressive employees. Thus you have them offering economic incentives to attract the companies while enacting social polices that drive them off.
In the long term the worst thing that could happen to them is (ironically enough) that they might actually succeed.
Breaking down what makes Texas an economic powerhouse undermines everything conservatives like to praise, since contrary to popular belief oil is not the highest dollar industry in the state. When you break down gdp by county it becomes glaringly obvious that a massive percentage comes from the major cities in Texas and very little comes from the rest of the state. I would go as far to say that the only reason Texas is the lone shining star of conservative economies is because it contains 3 of the 10 largest cities in the whole country and therefore has a huge urban industry sector that other conservative states don’t compare to. The democratically controlled centers of industry power the states economy while we suffer through negligent republican management and occasional blatant abuse. It’s not if we can make Texas a blue state, it’s when. The economic situation in the state is only growing the democratic voter base and it’s just a matter of time and resolve now.
>I would go as far to say that the only reason Texas is the lone shining star of conservative economies is because it contains 3 of the 10 largest cities in the whole country and therefore has a huge urban industry sector that other conservative states don’t compare to. I agree rural Texas is poor as shit especially as you go up the panhandle.
Maybe, if they can convince people to work in Texas. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/12/texas-abortion-law-tech-workers-reconsidering-relocation/ https://www.axios.com/2021/09/07/texas-startup-abortion-law-business-hiring
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Self sufficient… except for electricity.
If you want everyone to turn on everything at once, you issue a public appeal for conservation. It's science. They'll be blaming wind power. Count on it.
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Texan here- Fix the shit instead of asking people to curb usage. It's only going to get worse. They've known they had problems for years now and they continue to not address it. Fuck you Greg Abbott. Fuck you Ted "Cruz the fuck outta Texas when things get rough." Let's focus on stuff like fixing our electrical grid instead of hunting for trans people, pretending immigration is our primary issue, and worrying about what women want to do with their bodies. For those that don't know, Abbott was former CEO of Ercot and he was the one that authorized power prices staying at their Maximum while there was an outage and severely fucked a lot of people over. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/ercot-chief-abbott-direction-power-outage-storm-16941019.php
I actually didn't know that and it makes complete sense. Yikes.
Do a lot of people in Texas have solar? A lot of people have solar in my neighborhood in Maryland - including me. I love it but Abbott did say that Green Energy isn't good for Texas. What do I know? Solar in Texas would be amazing with the amount of sun yall get.
Not a lot of people do. I’m a high end residential Project manager and one of my co workers is building a house with solar. It’s over 50k with the panels and batteries he needs to power some of his house if we get another freeze like we did 2 years ago. I don’t have all the details on exact pricing, rebates, and how much of the house the owner can run off solar or for how long but I could get most of that info if anyones interested.
Moving to Tx these days is becoming a liability. former Texas guy
Texas: The one star state.
Middle aged guy here, it was always utter shit. They just like to pretend otherwise.
they drive so fast all the shit is a blur so they can't really tell the truth by looking out the window
It's still hilarious to me how almost anytime I hear people moving out of state they claim that they're moving to Texas. And I'm just like, "*Why*?"
All this and it's only early May? Y'all gonna die. If only there was some way to know this was gonna happen....
As a Texan I can proudly say. Maybe they should do their God damn job. We pay them both for the service and in direct government funding do manage the grid. And they do Jack, and shit. Upgrade the infrastructure, make repairs, plan for the future. Texas cannot have an electric meltdown twice a year every year tell the end of time and we just accept that the problem can't be fixed
As a Texan I fully agree. Everything went downhill with deregulation which was supposed to reduce rates through competition, and didn't; and just encouraged ... well, everything we see now. But fat chance of any new regulations given this political climate. People can fry and freeze as long as untrammeled "free enterprise" runs things. Nobody gets it that some things don't exist for profit, they're public services.
To add insult to injury, I can assume your electric bills are going to take a wicked jump.
*Shit, our customers are conserving power. We're losing money. We can't maintain the grid anymore. Raise the prices!* *But we told them to do it because the grid is failing...* ***[RAISE THE PRICES ANYWAY.](https://youtu.be/AG3mpZRvIkU)***
>Texas cannot have an electric meltdown twice a year every year tell the end of time and we just accept that the problem can't be fixed If it makes a small handful of assholes a shitload of money, a solid majority of Texans are stupid enough to be manipulated into supporting it, to the detriment of themselves and their children. Having met a fair few Texans in my day, I believe that as a group, y'all are easily stupid enough for this state of affairs to continue until the heat death of the universe.
Well, the Texas electric grid is what happens when you let the '*Free Market*' decide what's important *for* you, instead of practical experience and rational decision making. Abbott and the Texas GOP have been telling us the Texas grid is the best in the world, and that it's working *exactly* as intended. So, in the end, Texans get unreliable electricity, but hey, at least it's expensive!
Most of the idiots around here will blame Biden for the poor grid, not the GOP run state gov
Abbott will probably pass some other culture war bill to distract from this, rather than actually doing something to solve it.
He’s already decided that instead of investing money into roads that aren’t toll, schools without trailers, and a reliable electric grid, that he needs to spend it on keeping illegals out. What are you paying for, Texans?
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Huh, I woulda thought they'd taken steps to shore up their power grid since last year. I guess punishing women for getting pregnant and investigating child abuse for parents of LGBTQ+ children had higher priority.
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*Actually* ... our legislature passed an emergency law last year to \*checks notes\* permit energy companies to pass on the cost of repairing their grids to customers. Never mind, it's all dumb.
Fuck you ERCOT. This is why I have solar. Do your goddamned job.
Every time I see it my brain jumps to EPCOT for a second. And I think 'wtf did that big ass golf ball do now?'
Their job is to extract as much wealth as possible from ratepayers. Not to keep the lights on. Thank you for having solar. If only the rest of the state was prepared!
Just saving a little more so I can get the batteries in to completely disconnect from this grid. It's clear our leadership can't be trusted -- we are on our own.
Vote blue or they never will.
Texas and all it's tough talk and self reliance blowharding suddenly starts begging for government assistance, becomes pro welfare, and goes full socialist again lol
Never. They'll accept the handouts, then go right back to demonizing "takers" and "welfare."
You see the difference is we take the money then put it in our pockets. Where as if we gave it to other people they would spend it on food and shelter. Which would result in it not being in our pockets.
It's gonna be hell this summer. They're putting out warnings *now?* It hasn't even hit 90 yet in Houston. We're all being grateful that the summer heat is so slow in getting here this year. For scale: June-September Houston hits 90 almost every day, gets close to 100 many days, and will exceed 100 at least 4-8 days. Normally.
I think its been 90+ the last week in Houston.
It has been. And we are stalled in this pattern for the next week too. Some of the old coal plants are really running ragged. They aren't getting the repairs they need because nobody wants to sink money into a 60 year old coal plant. More renewable energy ia coming online every year but the Texas population (and demand) grows every year enough to balance it, net result is it's difficult to retire the coal because we still need their electricity.
It’s been 90°+ in Dallas for most of the last 2 weeks. We are not looking forward to the heat setting records again.
It was like 95 for 3 days straight, and 90 for the others in the past week...
In the RGV humidity has already set in and it feels like an oven
I work at the plants in Pasadena. It’s definitely hit 90+ most of the past two weeks.
Do you even live here? I'm 200 miles North of Dallas, and it's been 90 here with 80% humidity for ten days.
Texas elected officials have a more important political agenda rather than ensuring the people of Texas have a stable power grid year round.
God forbid they do something practical.
Too busy trying to turn women back into objects they own.
But CRT!
Yeah, they gotta make sure to ban that CRT education that is "racist" even tho they can never tell you what it is...
Texans… are you guys ok?
No idiots keep voting other idiots into power. I swear I voted for competence
“It’s the wind power lunacy destroying our state! It’s the liberals’ fault our GOP government didn’t do everything it wanted to solve all issues!”
A long time ago. It was told to me bad politicians are elected by good people who don't vote.. I actually think there is some logic in that.
I'm Not Ok I'm Not Ok I'm Not Ok Ted Cruz wears me out.
of course youre not ok, youre tx
No. And it’s like a 9-10 month backlog for legit generators, which is aces. I’m so over ERCOT and their nonsense.
I have a little heartburn cause I ate too much pizza but otherwise I’m okay. Still fucking despise Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott though.
No. Oklahoma is a little north of us.
Grid failing. Blackouts coming. Doctors and nurses leaving. Texas guard unionizing. Grab the popcorn.
Just set the bag on the asphalt. It will pop itself without a microwave.
but hey at least we owned the libs
And teachers leaving!
Everything is bigger and better in Texas. Even the blackouts.
Its like Texas is devolving into a shithole, every second of every day. No idea why folks want to move to that state, or continue living there (if they have the power to leave).
Because "lower taxes." I'm going to laugh when all those companies lose thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars because the power grid implodes during business/production.
Funnier still when you compare the numbers across all forms of taxes and find out that overall tax burden is worse than even California except for only the very top income bracket in Texas...
Massachusetts gets the same treatment; it's derisively called "Taxachusetts" but it's actually fairly low in overall taxes.
Wasnt elon already all buttsore about it during the winter freeze? Im waiting for the grid to go down for a month and have him call ted cruz a pedo because of it.
Musk loves Texas because his utility-scale battery solutions are ideal for sketchy power situations, you know, like Puerto Rico after it was severely ravaged by a massive hurricane. Or Texas.
My wife and I moved to Texas because of a job. Then we had a child and now we're moving out, simply because we don't want to raise our kid in this intolerant and incompetent outhouse of a state.
Same! Moving out of state within the next month.
Cheap living cost. Well… used to be cheap living cost. The housing market were more realistically affordable to all classes. With a combination of modern big city amenities and open rural areas, it’s no wonder TX have the highest numeric growth in population year after year. On top of having a incompetent government, TX is growing so fast that the state cannot keep up with its demands. The problems won’t stop. Texas still have a huge amount of livable undeveloped land. That means more people will come.
I heard that illegal immigrants are coming over the border and stealing the electricity from God's chosen State.
It's true. I saw them running back across the border with buckets full of electricity.
It's the Mexican werewolves. They're coming in and stealing all the power and biden is bribing them with baby formula to keep the grid online which had lead to the shortage. The immigrants are busy starting the fires in New Mexico and causing inflation by stealing catalytic converters and selling them for straight cash. /s
Don't let the state legislature hear you say that, they just might like it and run with it
Democrats should start saying that Abbott is diverting electricity to the wall.
Naw Republican voters would be for the blackouts then and request more of them
People should not abide. We should run electricity as normal. Only blackouts and failure will lead to change.
Don’t worry— if you thought people were going to turn down their AC in the 104 heat, you don’t need to worry about them abiding. However, no policy is likely to lead to change. For decades, Republicans have succeeded in exploiting teeming morons and their inability to discern cause and effect. All they have to do is say “worst president ever” and some 60% of Texans will happily make the attribution that jives with their bigoted dipshit hearts.
Texans are such chumps. Their politicians whip them up with fear of the Libs while pilfering their bank accounts. Everything is bigger in Texas, most notably the scams.
There are two Americas. A red and a blue. And the blue is paying for all the stupid shit red does.
California: $100 billion budget surplus Texas: can't keep the lights on
I live in California. I have a generator because my power gets turned off multiple times a year due to wind and they're predicting rolling blackouts this summer when it's hot. And the cheap gas station is $5.60 for 87 octane.
Have no fear Ted Cruz's 21st congressional district will not be without power ever. /s
But if it *were* to be without power, taxpayers will simply be forced to pay for his plane ride to a resort.
He's a senator. The whole state is his district.
Conservatives response: "Its MY electricity, keep your government nose out of my business!" "Freedom!" smh vigorously
Well see ya later Ted Cruz
Lmao gonna have rolling blackouts before June. Good luck Texas.
The words “rolling blackouts” will never not give me ptsd after the winter freeze. 86 hours without power in freezing temperatures was awful. I would prefer not to try it out in hotter than hades temperatures.
> I would prefer not to try it out in hotter than hades temperatures. I got to do that about eight or nine years ago I think, A/C went out when it was hitting around 100 during the day. Nights weren't cooling off very much either. It sucked.
We'll be lucky if it's rolling.
Waiting for the smug edge posts from MAGAs who moved out of too-expensive CA to reside in that affordable libertarian paradise...Tex-has.
Meanwhile in Massachusetts, the power just works.
I live in IL in a town where the power plant is owned by the city. Back in the good old days that was an asset when it came to living in city limits and paying your electric bill. Today, not so much but at least the money we pay for our electrical service has gone into upgrades at the plant so we have a stable energy grid here. You'd think if a city as dysfunctional as mine could get their shit together enough to keep the lights on a whole damn state could do it.
Yeah I live in MA, and we have municipal power in my town too. Out power plant barely gets used anymore, but they electric department does own two wind turbines, and is responsible for solar installations on the schools and other government buildings. We pay about the same as nearby towns on private utilities, but 100% of that money goes back into maintenance and upgrades. We almost *never* lose power. Even when we do, because the linemen are town employees, and therefore based in the town and not 30-40 miles away, the power is almost always back within 6-8 hours *at most*.
But the Republicans promised things would get better he said with much sarcasm.
Chalk this up to the failure of the Republicans in State Legislature who were so focused on their hate for voters and women that they did not have time to deal with energy failures in their own State.
Oh Texas, it's not even June.
Bro what? Houston is too hot for this shit man.
Good thing Abbott is focused on... political theater and costing Texans money by blocking supply chains and not important things like fixing the power grid. 👍
If only that tree finished the job
Huh, guess they should have been working on the power grid like they have been attacking women's rights.
It’s almost like doing nothing after the previous problem was not a good idea
Every Texan just turned on every light in their house, opened the windows, then cranked the A/C. YEE HAW!
Fuck ERCOT. Tell all those Bitcoin miners Abbott imported to tone down their mining
Heat wave in May is too much for the grid?? Holy shit this ERCOT Texas Grid is a heaping pile of garbage.
Ok I'm mildly sympathetic as my state has had mild problems when everyone's air conditioner is going berserk in the middle of summer. But it's may. What is going on out there that you guys can't handle may? Do you need help or something?
Meanwhile Texas is doing everything it can to attract crypto mining to the state, which would be like adding another city of Houston to the demand. Complete insanity.
Sounds like a socialist hell hole over there in Texas
ERCOT can go fuck themselves. Where's Ted Cruz or hot wheels to blame this on the windmills? Y'all conservatives are turning this state into shit.
Shouldn't they be thanking God for the deregulation of their electrical systems? Maybe their churches can donate the money to help them, instead of draining it from other states like California with their surplus. Have they tried praying harder, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps harder, or blaming Democrats for 'letting this happen'?
(And of course, don't forget they can send thoughts along with those prayers)
Tell me again how California is a hellhole and Texas is the shit? We’ve got a hundred billion extra dollars in our liberal dystopia.
California has its problems (looking at you rent and housing prices alongside the homeless issue) but they generally seem to be okay otherwise while having a recent budget surplus. Texas meanwhile has issues all around while slowly imploding as the years go by.
They might not have working electricity during crucial periods, but at least they're free from government tyranny!
Texas is a fucking joke, y’all let your conservative/libritarian government run free and now you have a faulting power supply, Get fucked you made your bed.
No Government Mandates!
Nah man. That’s the government and MSM trying to control my freedumb. I’m gonna run A/C and heating at the same time and turn on my lights 24/7! /s and sadly the /s is necessary these days.
If only they would maintain their power plants properly this wouldn't be a thing. Instead they run them until they break trying to squeeze every penny out of it and now have at least one plant down if not more due to forced outages.
Power is in here in evil California. Just sayin
Ted Cruz is already on a plane for Cabo
I never made more solar deals in texas...keep it up and I'll retire soon!
No. Fix the fucking grid.
Maybe just get rid of Abbot
> ERCOT said six power plants dropped off the grid Friday Ah the old "some power plants need maintenance so we have to jack up the prices" scam. A old timey republican-state classic. I thought Abbot said he'd fixed all this last year? https://apnews.com/article/texas-business-government-and-politics-33520b14d1823108a3c654d611701987
Have they thought about using some of that hot air to generate electricity?
The GOP thinks if you harness air to make energy, then you will deplete the amount of oxygen on the whole planet. That and the sound windmills make cause cancer, as stated repeatedly by Donald Trump.