re: Hinajosa plans to freeze electricity prices day one under “emergency powers”

This is true that she made that as a campaign promise. I doubt she can execute on it.

We see this a lot . I fondly remember “no Mideast wars”

You’ve shown absolutely no proof that her mother isn’t an illegal clown like she is.

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Thanks a lot libs and white flag republicans, enjoy freezing in the dark…..

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Every person who didn't vote for Republicans voted for this.

I will provide a link once you admit that it doesn’t matter if her mom is a U.S. citizen in order to counter your incorrect claims that she’s an illegal or an anchor baby.

She will be sued immediately by every retail energy provider in the state. This won’t happen.

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She is acting like she wants to destroy Texas.

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Don't confuse incompetence for evil intelligence, it gives her too much credit.

Texas has long had problems with their power grid and winter storms (going back to at least 1989 when the first rolling blackouts happened to keep the grid from failing).

The state's electricity producers have been able to keep pace with the demands of the growing population but only at the very surface level (population growth vs production growth, for example). The devil is in the details and here's two big details that are bedeviling the Texas grid:

1. The Type of Power:
Over 80% of the new power projects added since 2021 have been intermittent renewables (solar and wind) paired with battery storage. While these "green" sources routinely help the grid during the blazing summers, they do not provide the same guaranteed "always-on" backup during late nights or prolonged winter freezes when the sun goes down earlier and the wind stops blowing.

2. The "Large-Load" Queue:
Large data centers draw immense, continuous amounts of power. There are currently ~171 data centers (individual buildings) across Texas with another ~currently being built. There's so much activity that TCEQ has paused all new data center environmental permits. The estimated power draw from those systems still being built will eventually be another ~6GW. The items still in the planning stage (paused because of TCEQ) are estimated to be anywhere from 200-500 with the extra power draw estimated to be in the hundreds of GW.

Instead of pushing wind and solar or pushing price freezes, they need to be pushing more nuclear.

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I will provide a link once you admit that it doesn’t matter if her mom is a U.S. citizen in order to counter your incorrect claims that she’s an illegal or an anchor baby.

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So you cannot justify this.

I would not be surprised if the poster mentioning where she came from is a plant for you to riff off of. That would not surprise me.

Just like rent controls. They don't work.

The sooner everyone remembers SloFro is an intentional foil the sooner he can start being ignored.

He is a contrarian on every board he posts on here.