I came across this Tweet and thought it was an example of this week:
I came across this Tweet and thought it was an example of this week:
Who knew that electric companies would refuse to spend money weatherizing equipment if they aren't forced?
Somehow Scotland still manages to have wind power and old-fashioned power stations even though it gets ever so slightly chilly every winter.
Living in a Libertarian fantasy land must be wonderful and worth dying for.
Name any current federal regulation that would have changed anything?
Why all the California power outages - so common there is a California power outage map for people to check?
California Power Outages Map
PowerOutage.us tracks, records, and aggregates power outages across the United States.poweroutage.us
This has nothing to do with deregulation. It may have to do with stupidly believing on global warming so not prepared for a freak super cold front.
Someone ask Joko to dispute the premise of the Tweet in the OP, as he doesn’t respond to me, (Gott sie dank).
Who knew that electric companies would refuse to spend money weatherizing equipment if they aren't forced?
Somehow Scotland still manages to have wind power and old-fashioned power stations even though it gets ever so slightly chilly every winter.
Living in a Libertarian fantasy land must be wonderful and worth dying for.
That is exactly what I did. Cite the specific federal regulation(s) by regulation numbers that would have avoided what happened in Texas. It's YOUR claim. NOTHING shows lack of federal regulations or other regulations has any factor whatsoever. Prove the reason Iowa wind generators are more suited for hyper cold has ANYTHING to do with regulations? People in Texas us lighter weight motor oil and many use lower levels of anti-freeze in their cars too. The fault of lack of regulations on their cars?
Partly, yes; what is the population of Iowa, and how much land area does it cover? Texas is six times the size and population, so its problems are also magnified, and throw in large minority populations and criminal illegal aliens. It suffers fewer black outs than California, the largest state and run by alleged 'progressives'. 3.2 million people with some 50% or so living in concentrated urban areas isn't a big management deal.Another example is Iowa, several states to the north. Iowa derives 36% of it's power from wind, the highest proportion of any state in the Union. It was even colder in Iowa that week, yet their grid puttered along just fine! What we have here is a Texas problem. Their de-regulation-privatization model failed them. As it will fail the rest of the country, if we allow it to happen.