Texas Crisis & Ted Cruz...

Gary K

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Hilltrot

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No they are not.
As if you bothered to go out to then.
You don't know what you're talking about. You're just being stupid, contemptible, and irritating troll.
When demand gets high the prices soar.
I do love your insults, telling me so much about you.
You still don't understand what a contract is. I guess they don't have those in England.
 

Gary K

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To charge extra in hard times is not good service practice.
We don't get anything like that here.
You are so ignorant of the facts it's criminal.

The DOE forced Texas to buy power from out of state, and when that happens during an emergency event Texas was forced to buy at emergency prices. That's the reason for the high prices. That was forced upon Texas by the federal government. Texas utilities were not the cause of the high prices. They were forced to pay the high prices, at up to 18000% above normal. That's the Biden administration punishing Texas for political reasons.

This is a prime example of what happens when big government, socialism, sticks it's nose where it doesn't belong. One of Biden's own executive orders produced these results.
 

Arthur Brain

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Why do you and the British hate Mexicans so much? Why are you so racist?

There is absolutely nothing any senator can do for Texas, especially in Texas. The only thing I'm mad at Ted Cruz for is cutting his vacation short. How his sharing in the misery of others helps us, I don't know. Personally, I would rather have him rested for the upcoming senate battle than back here.

The only people who are upset with Ted Cruz leaving are morons who don't know what's going on or who can really help.



Here's some perspective for morons.

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I don't hate Mexicans at all and this was just utter drivel HT.
 

annabenedetti

like marbles on glass
You are so ignorant of the facts it's criminal.

The DOE forced Texas to buy power from out of state, and when that happens during an emergency event Texas was forced to buy at emergency prices. That's the reason for the high prices. That was forced upon Texas by the federal government. Texas utilities were not the cause of the high prices. They were forced to pay the high prices, at up to 18000% above normal. That's the Biden administration punishing Texas for political reasons.

This is a prime example of what happens when big government, socialism, sticks it's nose where it doesn't belong. One of Biden's own executive orders produced these results.

Blaming this on Biden is insane.

Texas has its own power grid. It's independent of the national grid and isn't regulated by the FERC, and has had little incentive (before now, anyway) to winterize the grid infrastructure.

The reasons Texas controls its own grid, the journalist Kate Galbraith observed in a Texplainer piece for the Texas Tribune in 2011 have to do with the same theme that colors so much of Texas' history and public policy: a distrust of federal interference.

Now the TX AG is investigating ERCOT:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday issued civil investigative demands to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas and 11 other power companies related to the power outages, emergency plans, energy pricing and other factors associated with this week’s winter weather disaster in the state.

In a press release Friday, Paxton said he's launching an investigation into ERCOTand other entities that “grossly mishandled this week’s extreme winter weather,” leaving millions of Texans to endure sub-freezing temperatures without power or heat for several days.
 

eider

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You don't know what you're talking about. You're just being stupid, contemptible, and irritating troll.

You still don't understand what a contract is. I guess they don't have those in England.
President Biden has ordered Federal funding to be extended to Texas, and the temperature is slowly rising, or so we hear in the UK. Excellent.

But scores of thousands are still without clean water.
 

eider

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You are so ignorant of the facts it's criminal.

The DOE forced Texas to buy power from out of state, and when that happens during an emergency event Texas was forced to buy at emergency prices. That's the reason for the high prices. That was forced upon Texas by the federal government. Texas utilities were not the cause of the high prices. They were forced to pay the high prices, at up to 18000% above normal. That's the Biden administration punishing Texas for political reasons.
Usual tribal backhander there, from ffreeloader.

This is a prime example of what happens when big government, socialism, sticks it's nose where it doesn't belong. One of Biden's own executive orders produced these results.
Federal funding has been extended to help the people of Texas now.
See? That's Federal socialism at work within the communities.
 

eider

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Blaming this on Biden is insane.

Texas has its own power grid. It's independent of the national grid and isn't regulated by the FERC, and has had little incentive (before now, anyway) to winterize the grid infrastructure.

The reasons Texas controls its own grid, the journalist Kate Galbraith observed in a Texplainer piece for the Texas Tribune in 2011 have to do with the same theme that colors so much of Texas' history and public policy: a distrust of federal interference.

Now the TX AG is investigating ERCOT:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday issued civil investigative demands to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas and 11 other power companies related to the power outages, emergency plans, energy pricing and other factors associated with this week’s winter weather disaster in the state.

In a press release Friday, Paxton said he's launching an investigation into ERCOTand other entities that “grossly mishandled this week’s extreme winter weather,” leaving millions of Texans to endure sub-freezing temperatures without power or heat for several days.
Now that looks more like the truth.
 

Derf

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Can someone explain this headline and article to me?

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Around 70 Suspected Hypothermia Deaths Reported in Texas Homes After Deep Freeze​



By The Associated Press

February 20, 2021 Updated: February 20, 2021

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DALLAS—With the snow and ice clearing in Texas after days of unusually cold temperatures, bodies are being found of people who likely froze to death as they struggled to stay warm after electricity was cut to millions of homes
Of the around 70 deaths attributed to the snow, ice, and frigid temperatures nationwide, more than a dozen were people who perished in homes that had lost their heat, and most of those were in Texas. They include an 11-year-old boy who died in his bed in Conroe, near Houston, and two older men found dead in their homes in the small West Texas town of Buffalo Gap in Taylor County.
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The headline clearly says "Around 70 Suspected Hypothermia Deaths Reported in Texas..."
The article clearly delineates 70 nationwide deaths, or whom "more than a dozen" were in their own homes, and that
most of "more than a dozen" who perished in their homes were in Texas.
To me, that sounds like perhaps a dozen people died in Texas of something to do with the frigid temperatures, but not necessarily hypothermia.

So how is the headline justified??? Certainly not from the article contents!
 

Gary K

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That's just absolute rubbish.
It's only rubbish if you repeatedly deny the evidence from the Biden administration about what Texas utilities could and could not do. But that's the norm from you. You see your bald-faced assertions as evidence and ignore the evidence that shows you 100% wrong.
 

Gary K

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Can someone explain this headline and article to me?

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Around 70 Suspected Hypothermia Deaths Reported in Texas Homes After Deep Freeze​



By The Associated Press

February 20, 2021 Updated: February 20, 2021

biggersmaller
Print




DALLAS—With the snow and ice clearing in Texas after days of unusually cold temperatures, bodies are being found of people who likely froze to death as they struggled to stay warm after electricity was cut to millions of homes
Of the around 70 deaths attributed to the snow, ice, and frigid temperatures nationwide, more than a dozen were people who perished in homes that had lost their heat, and most of those were in Texas. They include an 11-year-old boy who died in his bed in Conroe, near Houston, and two older men found dead in their homes in the small West Texas town of Buffalo Gap in Taylor County.
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The headline clearly says "Around 70 Suspected Hypothermia Deaths Reported in Texas..."
The article clearly delineates 70 nationwide deaths, or whom "more than a dozen" were in their own homes, and that
most of "more than a dozen" who perished in their homes were in Texas.
To me, that sounds like perhaps a dozen people died in Texas of something to do with the frigid temperatures, but not necessarily hypothermia.

So how is the headline justified??? Certainly not from the article contents!
I can explain that in two words. Fake News.

This is a good example of how the mockingbird media works with the deep state and the Democrats.
 
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