For all of you bustin' Texas' chops over TEXIT and electricity

While I have zero doubts about the accuracy of this, I know that it will not be covered this way in the MSM.

They won't even blame the failure of "renewables" in the grid failing due to poor weather.

They will just laugh at Texans' misery (it's a red state, after all - for a little while longer until they can "turn it blue" by 2028 or 2032).

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for a little while longer until they can "turn it blue" by 2028 or 2032

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We will either be independent by then or die trying.

Running out of energy in Texas is like starving to death at the grocery store- Tucker Carlson

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Running out of energy in Texas is like starving to death at the grocery store

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What if all the grocery store doors are frozen shut?

Could this be about profit?

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Besides the impact on households, the cold is wreaking havoc on the energy industry itself. U.S. oil production has dropped by well over a million barrels a day, helping U.S. crude prices trade above $60 a barrel for the first time in more than year. The region’s refining complex -- which produces almost half of the nation’s fuel -- is struggling to limp along without power and gas supplies. Some of the largest oil refineries have shut altogether, threatening to reduce supplies of gasoline and diesel across the country.

Natural gas production has also been curtailed just as the cold caused demand to jump. At the Waha hub in Texas gas changed hands at $500 per million British thermal units on Monday, more than 100 times the price at the Henry Hub, the benchmark for the wider U.S.

Power plants with a combined capacity of more than 34 gigawatts were forced offline on Monday, including nuclear reactors, coal and gas generators and wind farms. It’s not yet clear why. Early on Tuesday, power generation in Texas had yet to stage any significant recovery.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small-business/us-power-crisis-leaves-millions-cold-dark-as-blackouts-expand/2021/02/15/26597b8e-6fec-11eb-8651-6d3091eac63f_story.html

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Sorry thought I included them will update:

TNM Article I highlighted from

Bloomberg Article confirming the Feds involvment

I’m going on 24 consecutive hours without power (this is a different situation than during hurricanes), so I haven’t been on the board during this disaster. Instead, like many of you, I’m sweating over thousands of dollars of potentially busted pipe damage in the house and the pool. But I just hopped on for a second to check on “life” outside of my igloo and saw this post.

This nightmare is going to push Texas closer to cutting the ties that bind.

Blame fedgov and their move to prevent violations of anti-pollution rules. This was 100% preventable and is the quintessential example of federal bureaucracy and overreach fricking up life.

Texas Power Plants “Get Emergency Clearance” to Crank Up Output: Bloomberg

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The Energy Department order, requested by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, authorizes power plants throughout the state to run a maximum output levels, even as such a move is anticipated to result in a violation of limits of pollution.

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No words.

Stay safe, neighbors.
This is one for the ages.

Chinese Wind Farm in Texas: 'It's the greatest national security concern'

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Congressman Will Hurd and Senator Ted Cruz have raised questions about Houston-based GH America Energy, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese Guanghua industry investment group (has the ability to connect to our grid). Its CEO, a former Sun Guangzin, a member of the Communist Party and a former member of the Chinese military, now wants to build wind turbines on the more than 130,000 acres that he has purchased since 2015 by Devils river.

In layman's terms when Texas deregulated our energy market, Texas being one of 3 power grids in the U.S., we left ourselves open according to Congressman Hurd for other countries including adversaries like China to tap in to our source of energy.

“And what’s scary about that is, if you become a provider, all the updates about a tax to our grid, that CPS energy gets, in order to defend, that could potential be going to an adversary as well," said Hurd.

https://foxsanantonio.com/news/yami-investigates/chinese-wind-farm-in-texas-its-the-greatest-national-security-concern-said-hurd

Did you see the OT post about being able to run a gas furnace off of a generator?

Basically unplug you furnace blower and run it on an extension cord to a ginny and it should have you up with heat.

I didn’t (I only visit this board).
But thanks, friend; good to know.
Our biggest concern right now is the pool equipment.
Im afraid we’re going to have a Hurricane Harvey redux where insurance claims are concerned.