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re: Can we be objective about Texas for a moment? Has Abbott failed this leadership test?
Posted on 2/18/21 at 12:05 am to cwill
Posted on 2/18/21 at 12:05 am to cwill
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I missed this earlier...I know for a fricking fact this was a big part of the problem...personally and just info in the field other co contacts. You had in the neighborhood of 4mm bod shut in plus all the associated gas. Also had dry gas wells shut in due to midsrmtream co failures - lots of force majeure letters flying around.
ok you are mixing some things here, but I see where you are coming from now
the midstream gas plant ops failures has more to do with NG shortfalls than freezing gas wells. compression and plant power generation is vulnerable to the temps and conditions we are seeing
sucker rod and flowing oil wells will freeze, flowng gas wells dont typically.
we pump shitloads of methanol for the gas pipeline systems but if there is no where for the gas wells to go with their gas because the big gas plants are down then you have a NG supply problem. the crude oil shortfalls wouldnt affect the NG systems ops too much
I wasnt aware any of our gas plant clients were down, will make some phone calls tmrw
our comms to odessa, hobbs, loving have been down, so info is sketchy.
the bigger challenge is prioritizing gas supllies to homes over power, it is the right move by the Gov but slows down return of energy to meet the high demand loads, hence controlled blackouts
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Posted on 2/18/21 at 12:15 am to Pvt Hudson
You don’t live in Texas or you’re lying. Or the obvious. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Posted on 2/18/21 at 12:45 am to Tiguar
If failing is putting 25% of the power grid under solar and wind power because he wanted the democrats to like him then yes...he failed
Posted on 2/18/21 at 5:10 am to Tiguar
The media will blame the highest ranking conservative regardless of facts. If the governor and president were dems they would just blame the congress. It’s been this way for 50 years.
Posted on 2/18/21 at 5:39 am to Tiguar
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They’re afraid to turn their lights on because they don’t want people to know they have electricity.
I’ve been fortunate to have power throughout this and haven’t once thought about turning the lights off.
Your friends sound like morons.
Posted on 2/18/21 at 5:47 am to Tiguar
I voted for him but a colossal frick up like this may take him down. I’ve talked to a few people lately who lean right and they’ve all said the same thing. Blame ERCOT- yes. ERCOT is governed by the PUC. Guess who’s in charge of that? The Governor.
I don’t care if this was a perfect storm. People in Houston have been without power for almost 72hrs and without water since Wed morning.
Heads need to roll and if Abbott had any say or oversight then there’s no way he survives this.
I don’t care if this was a perfect storm. People in Houston have been without power for almost 72hrs and without water since Wed morning.
Heads need to roll and if Abbott had any say or oversight then there’s no way he survives this.
Posted on 2/18/21 at 5:52 am to Hou_Lawyer
Is this a Trump cause don’t Covid thread?
Posted on 2/18/21 at 6:08 am to Pvt Hudson
quote:All regional and local in nature in the areas you declare disastrous. AND mostly in the Dem-cities
Our shitty infrastructure fails every hurricane/heat wave/cold snap leaving millions without power or water. The roads are crap and freeways are underwater for hours or days after storms.
Houston is a scrambled mish mash of decades upon decades of bad decision making.
Dallas is a junior version of that with permanent building of the shitty plans of decades ago.
Only two of which I am well aware. I do know you can smell most of the other cities 80 miles before you get to them - and Austin is in increasingly debilitating slow motion paralysis from dem-dufus control and its accompanying pervasive failure
Posted on 2/18/21 at 7:53 am to Tiguar
Not a lot he could have done. This cold snap wasn't on anyone's radar a few weeks ago. It sucks for many people (I happen to live near a fire station so I have been spared black-outs).
Will he take heat from those who want him weakened? Yes because facts and truth don't really matter in politics.
This isn't Katrina and Abbott is not Ms. Kathleen (God rest her soul). There wasn't power left on the sideline that could have been used, there wasn't a plan in place that wasn't executed. This is just a once in a century hit.
Will he take heat from those who want him weakened? Yes because facts and truth don't really matter in politics.
This isn't Katrina and Abbott is not Ms. Kathleen (God rest her soul). There wasn't power left on the sideline that could have been used, there wasn't a plan in place that wasn't executed. This is just a once in a century hit.
Posted on 2/18/21 at 8:02 am to Tiguar
The good news is, hopefully all the transplants from Kalifonia will move back.
It has not been that bad.
Most have been spoiled by creature comforts that they take for granted.
It has not been that bad.
Most have been spoiled by creature comforts that they take for granted.
Posted on 2/18/21 at 8:12 am to Tiguar
This goesw into the leftist file: "We should never let this happen again". Sorry, Gov. is ok in this. His regime 'balance sheet' is very admirable. Let's talk about WAshinton's governor, Oregon's governor, CA governor, and so on. These folks are ROUTINELY knuckleheads.
Posted on 2/18/21 at 8:16 am to cwill
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not making the uneconomic decision to prepare for Canadian weather. It sucks now but imagine trying to get people to pay more for energy a year ago to prep for an extremely rare event. You’d have been told to GFY.
yeah these scenarios are perfect tuesday morning QB scenarios
you don't prepare the institutions and systems that support our lives for a constant threat of black swan opportunities
this is like the Milton Friedman video where he talks about the Pinto
Posted on 2/18/21 at 8:21 am to SlowFlowPro
This thread was intended to be less about the lack of preparation regarding infrastructure stability for a once every 100 year event and more about what has been done after.
To reiterate, has anything NOT been done that COULD be done regarding relief?
Is there anything the NG could do? Are they doing anything?
From the outside looking it, it just looks like Texas leadership is saying "sucks to suck" while asking FedGov for gibs
To reiterate, has anything NOT been done that COULD be done regarding relief?
Is there anything the NG could do? Are they doing anything?
From the outside looking it, it just looks like Texas leadership is saying "sucks to suck" while asking FedGov for gibs
Posted on 2/18/21 at 8:22 am to NIH
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You’ve admitted before you’re an IT worker.
i'm not going to get into specifics of his personal life but he's not an IT worker (or at least wasn't 5-ish years ago) and is someone i'd trust with information relating to TX oil/gas information
Posted on 2/18/21 at 8:31 am to Tiguar
a lot is going to depend on the road situations. can't get in aide with frozen roads
Posted on 2/18/21 at 8:40 am to Tiguar
Nope, blame Obama.
It was Obama’s Cross Air Pollution Act of 2011 that made coal unprofitable and caused three plants to get shutdown in Texas over the last decade. The upgrades and retrofits required were too expensive for coal to compete, particularly when, instead of relying on coal they had onsite in Texas, they had to bring in cleaner burning coal from Wyoming to comply with the regulations.
With those three plants operating, this wouldn’t have happened. You may remember Texas sued the feds over this regulation when it came out and lost.
It was Obama’s Cross Air Pollution Act of 2011 that made coal unprofitable and caused three plants to get shutdown in Texas over the last decade. The upgrades and retrofits required were too expensive for coal to compete, particularly when, instead of relying on coal they had onsite in Texas, they had to bring in cleaner burning coal from Wyoming to comply with the regulations.
With those three plants operating, this wouldn’t have happened. You may remember Texas sued the feds over this regulation when it came out and lost.
Posted on 2/18/21 at 10:31 am to SlowFlowPro
currently snowing like a MFer from Mexico to the LA state line
Posted on 2/18/21 at 10:32 am to supatigah
yeah i was texting with my mom and she said it was snowing again. my nephew is being way too snow spoiled
Posted on 2/18/21 at 11:05 am to Tiguar
Throw a week or 10 days of 110 degree temps at New York this summer and see how many are talking about the failure of the governor. Folks will be too busy declaring the end of time due to global warming to blame the governor for anything. Abbott is a target for the marxist democrats. That’s all.
Posted on 2/18/21 at 11:49 am to Tiguar
It’s kind of amazing to me how prevalent it is that a negative event must result in blame while we pretend good government would solve/prevent said negative event.
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